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...much atherosclerosis (the form of arteriosclerosis that affects the coronary arteries) as did the hearts collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the Haitians got far less to eat, and as many as 42% in the poorer classes were underweight, while as many as 30% of better-fixed Charleston Negroes were overweight; also, the Haitians had practically no cholesterol in their diet, while the South Carolinians had six to 20 times as much (mostly from eggs...
...Nehru's opinion, the "major division of the world today" is that between the developed and the underdeveloped communities, and the fact is that, comparatively, the poorer nations are getting poorer, and the gap between have and have-not is widening. "Whether you talk of a Communist state like the Soviet Union, which has become an industrialized state, or of many non-Communist states that are highly industrialized, in the final analysis they worship the same go(js-the god of industrialization, the god of the machine," and it was up to those present to help solve the economic...
...Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. It got a warmer welcome among the underdeveloped countries that would do the borrowing than the industrial nations that would do the lending; it appealed to the diplomats present more than to the bankers, who fear that it may encourage negligent financial tendencies in poorer nations. Ida is still in the limbo of "study...
...first glitter of the revolution has dimmed. The sandalmakers, smiths and petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...
Carlo Levi is a north Italian, but he is one of the few writers alive who can bring Sicily to the printed page without losing a scrap of myth, beauty and horror. In Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), Levi dealt with life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions...