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...permit a rigid stand on what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only to help meet the body's demands...
...whole question is of vital importance and merits prompt action; for it affects every...
...time around. Main reason: the shows have become so costly to produce that they must be broadcast at least twice to pay their way. The latest tally shows that the summer evening schedules of the three networks are clogged each week with no fewer than 65 programs that can prompt millions of viewers to mutter: "This is where I came in." Last week, because of the rerun deluge, New York's tabloid Mirror announced that the paper will simply stop reviewing TV for the summer...
...agreement to make sharp cutbacks within the next year in the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now stationed in Japan, including a "prompt withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces," i.e., about 30,000 men of the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division, biggest U.S. combat group in the home islands, will pull out this summer. Probable destination: Korea. As Japan's new, 200,000-man defense force grows, Washington plans to make further reductions in the remaining 70,000-man U.S. force-for the most part Air Force and Navy personnel...
Novelist C. P. Snow (The New Men) issued a prompt rejoinder as to why the kept canaries of the Welfare State warble such sour notes from their badly gilded cages: "Lucky Jim will not accumulate enough money to change his way of life. He is never going to starve, but he cannot have a dramatic rise in the world ... It is an unexpected result of the Welfare State that it should make the social pattern not less rigid but much more...