Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosen got on the trail among the Mabaan, a primitive tribe in a remote part of the southeast Sudan who eat practically no meat or saturated fat and have low cholesterol and blood-pressure levels even in their 70s. They are a quiet people, but that alone did not explain why their hearing is amazingly sharp, especially for frequencies as high as 12,000 cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity...
...Gulf of Mexico. Loaded with oil and bone, the eight-inch fish is about as welcome at a dining table as last Friday's halibut. Still, it is avidly sought by commercial fishermen because its oil is used in everything from lipstick to paint, and its meat and bones can be ground into high-protein animal feed...
...traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first, are responsible for the many restrictions and proscriptions (no public bus service on the Sabbath, the refusal of restaurants to serve milk and meat at the same meal) that make Israel a sort of secular theocracy...
...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...
Died. Mrs. Joan Patricia Skakel, 39, Connecticut socialite and sister-in-law of Mrs. Robert Kennedy; of strangulation, when a piece of meat lodged in her larynx while she was dining in her Greenwich home, thus adding one more tragedy to the incredible series befalling the Skakel and Kennedy families. Her husband, George Skakel Jr., was killed last September in the crash of a light plane; his parents met a similar death in 1955; her daughter Kathleen, 17, was involved but later found blameless in the death of a neighbor's seven-year-old daughter last December, when...