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With national elections due next September, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Christian Democrats can only hope that the next six months will go better for them than the last. Plagued with one embarrassing problem after another-from surrendering to France on grain prices to losing out on the multilateral force to humiliation by the Arabs over Israel's recognition-Erhard's regime has sunk in national esteem to its lowest level since der Dicke took office 17 months ago. Latest poll returns show the C.D.U. trailing the Social Democrats...
...astute management. A onetime railroad lawyer (Harvard Law '34), Saunders restored the Norfolk & Western to health as its president, was brought over to parent Pennsy in 1963. He has traveled up to 5,000 miles a week by plane and private railroad car, personally calling on coal and grain shippers to push the idea of "unitized" trains to haul their shipments faster and more cheaply...
...must eat like his environment or else he upsets the harmony between himself and nature and experiences the harmful effects of dislocation. In plain terms, he gets sick. Look at the stuff most people eat. Bananas, oranges--do you notice oranges growing in Boston? Man is naturally a grain eater. He ate grain for thousands of years. Why shouldn't he eat grain...
...tall young man returned, still chewing, and handed us a plate of gray grain bread and a bowl of chocolate-colored paste made from soy sauce and sesame butter. We began to spread the paste on the bread...
This lack of emotion did not surprise us. Before our visit, we had called Dr. Frederick Stare of the Harvard School of Public Health and asked him if there was medical explanation for Macrobiotic happiness. "There's not a grain of truth in those brown rice grains," was his reply. In fact, he added, Macrobiotics usually lost all sexual desire, were prone to periods of moroseness and acted without emotion...