Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thompson has an ulcer-he kept a pitcher of milk and a package of graham crackers in his office-but curiously enough his health was never better. There is no more demanding job in diplomacy than representing the U.S. in what, ideologically at least, is enemy territory. The grimy, grey ten-story U.S. embassy is always under siege. From nearby apartments all visitors are watched. The embassy staff is permanent prey for Soviet plainclothesmen (even children's outings are sometimes shadowed by police), and telephone "bugs" in offices and homes are taken for granted. Though social contacts with Russian...
Cissy, who may become one of the theater's great all-time bitches, is the heroine of Tennessee Williams' newest play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, which opened last week at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Feeling the approach of death, Cissy, played by Britain's Hermione Baddeley, is hurriedly assembling her coarse, maudlin, bawdy memoirs, and confiding them to a tape recorder. She yearns for a young and therapeutic companion. "There is nothing more stimulating than a lover to every nerve and gland and cell in the body...
Strontium 90, however, is not the only kind of radioactive fallout that can get into milk; iodine 131 can become a problem too. But its threat does not justify the scare advertisement (showing a bottle of milk with a death's-head label) that the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy ran last week in the New York Times...
While strontium 90 is long-lasting (half life: 28 years), the half life of iodine 131 is only eight days. If the iodine 131 level in milk ever rises above the danger point, the prescription will be simple: stop drinking fresh milk for a couple of weeks. No one need go hungry. Most other foods will be free of iodine 131; they will have been stored long enough to let its activity fall to the vanishing point...
...hooked onto the carbon atoms all along the molecular chain, as mono-unsaturated if hydrogen atoms are missing at one point in the chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported seed for use in dyes. Today, hundreds of thousands of acres in California...