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Some of the 13 industry associations that sponsor Scott and National Dairy Month abhor such alarming talk, and turn the statistics to quite a different conclusion. Since the Agriculture Department's dairy products figures are stated in terms of milk-fat consumption (and 1 Ib. of butter is rated as 21 Ibs.), the Milk Industry Foundation argues that 80% of the drop in dairy products represents butter's loss to competing margarine and claims that consumption of fluid whole milk has actually increased 10.9 Ibs. since...
...ponderous, unnamed 280-mm. gun (17 miles), carried by a two-cab hook-and-ladder-style truck, which lofts a 605-Ib. shell with high accuracy. A stopgap weapon that first appeared in 1953, it is so cumbersome that it is used for little else than military parades...
...infant has a condition so severe as to be an immediate threat to life itself, there is now virtually no lower limit to the age at which surgeons will move in. Dr. Gross has operated on 300 premature babies, one of whom weighed only11 Ib. 14 oz. Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 42, another bold vanguardsman in this field, regularly schedules four operations a day. By now, he has done 450 major operations on infants less than a year old. He will put even these tiny patients on the heart-lung machine if necessary, though he prefers...
Trouble is, demand has drastically diminished the kuruma supply. Japanese fishermen working home waters last year netted only 3,000 tons; another 4,000 tons were imported. But the imports were far from fresh by the time they arrived. The price of local prawns soared to $5 per Ib. Then, last week. Dr. Fujinaga announced that he was about to ease the culinary crisis. After 30 years of study, he has finally learned how to raise captive kuruma prawns in commercial quantities...
...DeWayne ("Tiny") Lund, cocky, 265-Ib. stock-car racer who had never won a major championship: the $100,000 Daytona 500, by carefully conserving his fuel supply and wheeling his 1963 Ford sedan around the banked asphalt track at an average speed of 151.566 m.p.h. Lund earned the ride in the Ford when he risked his life to pull its intended driver. Marvin Panch, from the flaming wreckage of a Ford-engined Maserati during a practice run. The badly burned Panch asked that Lund be allowed to take his place as a reward. Lund's share of the prize...