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...annual rate during the third quarter, the expansion actually amounted to 3.2% if the effects of the summer drought are excluded. That level of growth, while not quite inflationary in normal times, is straining against a shortage of workers and factory capacity. Unemployment in the U.S. has remained at low levels, though the Government reported last week that the jobless rate for November inched up to 5.4%, compared with 5.3% the previous month. Factories were operating at 84% of total capacity, the highest level since February...
...proprietorship of a bra-and-corset shop. After dropping out of two colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential for a low-level job.) Moving up quickly, Geffen became an agent for such 1960s stars as Joni Mitchell, the Association and Laura Nyro...
...food industry is slowly adapting to the recommended changes in diet. Some hotels and restaurants now offer low-fat, low-cholesterol menus. Sunshine Biscuits, maker of Hydrox cookies, is no longer using coconut oil in its products and soon plans to eliminate palm oil, both of which are cholesterol- boosting saturated fats. By next summer an American Heart Association seal of approval may be carried on foods that meet its heart-healthy guidelines...
...suggests that Americans limit themselves to 300 mg ( 1/100 oz.) of cholesterol a day. Cholesterol is found only in animal products, sometimes to a high degree: one egg yolk has 272 mg, and 3 oz. of beef liver has 331 mg. Saltwater fish, on the other hand, are extremely low in cholesterol and also contain omega-3 fatty acids, which may lower LDL levels. Not all seafood is as highly recommended: shrimp and crab, for example, have twice as much cholesterol as fish. Grundy's major candidates for removal from the diet are eggs and organ meats, such as liver...
Just how destabilizing such systems could be was illustrated last week when the Army conceded that SDI could severely threaten the Soviet Union's satellite system. Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. depend heavily on low-orbit satellites for military intelligence, navigation and communications. The Star Wars antimissile weapons, sitting in space, could easily be turned against Soviet satellites traveling in predictable orbits. Such a prospect is as unacceptable to the Soviets as it would be to the U.S. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara describes SDI as so destabilizing that he believes the Soviets would "be justified in shooting...