Word: petted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pet foods are better labeled than human foods. The quality of the food has gotten worse, not better. Heart diseases, which are closely related to our diets of saturated fats and sugars, have nullified twenty years of nutritional and medical advances. In 1949 we spent $12 billion on medicine. Last year it was $63 billion and life expectancy statistics have remained the same. There are twenty countries which have passed our expectancy averages in that time...
Kinsolving's hot-under-the-clerical-collar weekly columns, syndicated in 226 newspapers in the U.S. and ten other countries, are as much sermons as news. Though he has pet causes-liberal abortion laws, integration, Israel and theological freedom-his real enthusiasm is saved for his pet peeves, among them capital punishment, conservative theology and Black Power. His campaigns have led him into regular fulminations against the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Southern Baptist Convention and, most important, his own church. Episcopal funding of militant (and separatist) black groups has led Kinsolving, who once warned of a rightist takeover...
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...Culture. Compiled and edited by Tony Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...
...cashiered that Hickel became the first Secretary of the Interior to use the official Endangered Species List before-not after-a species was virtually extinct. By putting eight species of whales on the list, Hickel banned imports to the U.S. of nearly all whale products (meat for pet food, oil for cosmetics, shoe polish, margarine). "Hickel has chosen to make the list preventive rather than commemorative," said Roderick Cameron, head of the Environmental Defense Fund. Two days after Hickel was fired, the White House rescinded the order...