Word: milk
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Heavily qualified ("As yet there is no final proof"), the A.H.A. statement failed to beat its detractors-who were primed for battle-into print. The National Dairy Council, whose products (whole milk, butter, cream, cheese) were identified by the A.H.A. as cholesterol-producing villains, fought back fiercely. "The idea that replacing some 'saturated' fats [animal and hydrogenated fats] with 'unsaturated' fats will help prevent heart disease is clearly unproved," said the council. Manipulating the diet in favor of unsaturated fats (chiefly liquid vegetable oils), suggested the council darkly, could even be dangerous to health...
Borne by the Wind. Though foot-and-mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). With Sam Levene as Larry Fay, a Capone alumnus who muscled into a milk monopoly, and June Havoc as Sally Kansas, the sassy grande dame of Chicago speakeasies...
...city and village dwellers tending backyard gardens, and collective or state farm workers cultivating private gardens limited to one acre, turned out 46% of all the meat, 49% of all the green vegetables, 49% of all the milk, 65% of all the potatoes, and 80% of all the eggs consumed in Russia. The excess above home consumption is sold in the network of officially tolerated produce markets to which Russian housewives turn when goods are unobtainable in state stores...
Food? A busy supermarket does a business of $300,000 a month selling milk at 15? a quart and turkey at 41? a Ib. Entertainment? There are five nightclubs with free floor shows, inexpensive dinners and 25? highballs. The Teen Club is dominated by a free-play jukebox loaded with 60 rock-'n'-roll records and no reject button. Motoring? U.S. cars come direct from the factory at prices far below Stateside and gasoline is pumped into the tank at 14? a gallon. Vacation? If bored with the local 18-hole golf course (family membership: $40 a year...