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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One way to acquire a distinguished archaeological collection at little or no cost is to be named Moshe Dayan. The Israeli hero, now the nation's Defense Minister, digs a great many artifacts himself. Others he buys. "Dayan pays for everything with a check," explained an Arab antique dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

For many reasons, laboratory technicians and manufacturers have had to infuse foods with an infinite variety of chemicals. Two vital questions now nag both consumers and pure-food authorities: 1) Are these additives necessary or even desirable? and 2) Are they safe? In virtually no case is a simple declarative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food Additives: Blessing or Bane? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Taste for Salt. By far the most ancient and frequently used of all food additives, of course, is sodium chloride (NaCl), or "common salt," which is essential to animal life. Grazing animals and fish extract it from the plants they eat. So peoples who live largely by hunting and fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food Additives: Blessing or Bane? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

However, salt can also be an agent of disease and death. A single quarter-pound dose might kill a man. Even the healthy person's normal intake of about one-third ounce a day is harmful to patients with certain types of high blood pressure or heart or kidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food Additives: Blessing or Bane? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

GRAS List. In crude or dilute form, nature supplies some of the substances that have recently gained notoriety as additives. The first additives, aside from salt and seaweed, were spices. Some contained natural preservatives. Benzoic acid, used as a preservative for almost a century, occurs naturally in berries and in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food Additives: Blessing or Bane? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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