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...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all the degree to which he fooled himself about the rich and glamorous, who, he thought, virtually kidnaped him into their world...
With so much emphasis on what to eat and how much, some authorities despair of getting the public to recognize that heart disease has no single, simple cause. Hereditary susceptibility is a factor, and so is high blood pressure. Says Dr. Paul Dudley White, lean, beanpole dean of cardiologists: "We're trying to establish the degree of responsibility for a number of different factors. For instance, muscular metabolism, and the effects of vigorous exercise." Dr. William B. Kannel, assistant director of a ten-year-old study of more than 5,000 men and women in Framingham, Mass., says: "Cigarette...
...study, now beginning its second year, some volunteers will be given more freedom to buy their own lean meats. Next summer, the computers will render their verdicts on this and other variables in the volunteers' diets. Then the PHS will decide whether to launch a ten-year study of 100,000 men to settle, once and for all, the vexed questions of fats and the heart...
Mining in Canada seems to follow a pattern of seven years of fat, seven years of lean. The great uranium boom pumped $10 billion into the Canadian economy between 1950 and 1957, then fizzled. Now, after seven fairly slender years, a new mining rush is on. Some 900 companies are drilling for metals and oil from New Brunswick to British Columbia...
Georgia (24): All but 2 are instructed for Goldwater, and those 2 lean heavily toward him. Make it 24 for Barry...