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...whether there is anything peculiar about fat storage in obese people. Soon they had 32 patients in the institute's hospital, plus ten outpatients, on a low-protein diet with no restriction on the total daily calories-the test subjects could eat as much bread and butter with jam or jelly as they wanted, put sugar and cream in their coffee. Most of them lost weight handsomely while in the hospital. But after they went home and back to eating what they wanted when they wanted it, 52% regained the weight lost, 30% held steady, and 18% kept...
When the House Government Operations Subcommittee, stirred to action by last month's disastrous mid-air collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon, looked into the whole question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat...
...with their fire. The guards replied with submachine guns. Other strikers went to Poznan's two railroad stations, closed them down, barricaded highways leading into Poznan with overturned automobiles and furniture. Another group smashed Poznan's powerful radio transmitter, and tossed out the electronic equipment used to jam broadcasts from the West...
Everywhere business on the notoriously rickety second-class buses is declining in favor of new completos (first-class buses). Wealthy Mexicans jam the seashore resorts, or splash in heated swimming pools in the high, cool capital. Long trains chuff north through Sonora and Chihuahua to load record wheat crops...
...Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy of U.S. letters seems to have fallen into the writers' trap Kipling once spotted: "When you know what you can do, do something else." Mama I Love You is a near parody of what Saroyan could once do, and suggests...