Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy endorsing milk [Feb. 2]-modern research has established conclusively that milk, when taken internally by adults, is lethal. The only way it can be safely ingested and endured is mixed with a strong dose of brandy, a little sugar and nutmeg. Warming the milk first helps banish the taste and dim the memory...
...Milk's slump is generally attributed to three factors: 1) high price, about 25? a quart in most city stores, 2) fear that strontium 90 particles from Russia's atomic tests have contaminated milk, and 3) the theory that milk, as a major source of cholesterol, the fatty substance that clogs blood vessels, may be a cause of heart disease. President Kennedy last week argued that milk is a good buy. He gently reassured the strontium 90 worriers: "The cow itself, along with other factors, makes our milk very safe." And he tut-tutted the cholesterol carpers...
John Kennedy himself, like most members of his family, has always been an enthusiastic milk drinker, and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy is a milk lover without rival; one of his favorite treats is a glass of milk that has been chilled for precisely 15 minutes in a Deepfreeze. Other members of Kennedy's official family are falling into line. Last week, holding one of his daily press briefings, News Secretary Pierre Salinger passed glasses of milk around to reporters. All gamely drank, including Salinger...
...presiding Democratic leaders and went to Washington. There, he distinguished himself mostly for his windiness: in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stoked himself through the night with pumpernickel, hamburger meat and malted-milk tablets brought to the Senate by his wife (who was to die three years later, at 33, after surgery for a brain tumor). His performance set a new Senate filibuster record...
...infant is unable to metabolize phenylalanine (one of the basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical and mental retardation and blindness. The answer is to cut out milk, or anything containing the galactose molecule...