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...Anti-American? In the biggest of last week's Tokyo demonstrations, some 60,000 youngsters shouted, waved banners and threw stones outside the Diet build ing. The Premier was trapped for eight hours before he could slip out a back way. But most participants seemed to have only the vaguest idea of what they were protesting.-"The pact opens the path to fascism." explained one demonstrator vaguely. Girls shouting "Yankee go home" were shocked at the very suggestion that they were anti-American. Americans watching the demonstrations were never molested, and one "angry" crowd politely waited while a flustered...
...attacks, practicing physicians are not waiting for final answers. More and more doctors believe that it is wise anyway to reduce the amount of fats and related substances, notably cholesterol, in their patients' bloodstreams. Last week Cincinnati's. William S. Merrell Co. announced that it is start ing general distribution of a cholesterol-cutting chemical just approved (for prescription sale only) by the Food and Drug Administration. The chemical: triparanol, trade-named MER/2^. The makers claim that a single capsule daily will drop the blood cholesterol of 80% of patients to near normal, and presumably safer, levels...
...caution and thrift; he had to account every week for all the money he earned in household chores, was docked 1? for such delinquencies as being late to family prayers. From his Baptist mother. Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he absorbed a sense of piety and duty. Dancing, the theater, cardplay-ing and other frivolities were frowned on; at ten, young Rockefeller made a vow. which he never broke, to abstain from "tobacco, profanity and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages...
...with Harvard, which gets great drive from its rhythmic beat of 32. Instead, Cornell surged from the stake boats with a breathless beat of 41, moved ahead like a wide-open hydroplane. Once they had the lead, Cornell's ex-jayvees coolly dropped the beat to 31, understrok-ing even Harvard. Rowing against an 18-m.p.h. wind. Cornell held on to the end of the 2,000-meter course, beating off a desperate finishing effort by Harvard. Of the favored crews. Navy was third and Pennsylvania was sixth and last...
...live in Paris. There she wages constant battle against the obtrusive image. "I don't want to see anything on the canvas," says she. "For that, I could just as well look out the window." Yet she is still "bothered by the accuracy of my painting," for paint ing should be describable in no terms but painting. "It has to mean something. But I don't know what that means...