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...course of the 1960 presidential campaign, Jacqueline Kennedy got a full quota of wound stripes. A malicious rumor was dry-docked at New York's River Club that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women...
...continent emerging into freedom, Africa has developed a high quota of power grabbers...
...nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won. Physiologist Keys flatly dismisses such appetite depressants as the amphetamines (Benzedrine, Dexedrine) as dangerous "crutches for a weak will." Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are currently winning favor from dieters. "Metrecal is a pretty complete food," he says. "It contains large amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals. In the quantity of 900 calories a day, anyone will lose weight...
...keys to its success. He recommends that only college graduates be accepted, at least during the program's first years. Their selection, he says, should be based partly upon scholastic achievement and partly upon personality assessments. But because academic standards vary greatly throughout the country, some kind of sectional quota system may have to supplement the actual selection criteria...
...remain free, must release herself from the 2 billion dollar strangle-hold created by the U.S. and its private citizens. I have already pointed out that the U.S. refused to give Castro aid when he was trying to raise his people from their knees. Instead, we cut the sugar quota. In the eyes of the people of Latin America, the U.S. has already answered the "challenge" in terms of economic aggression--terms only too familiar to those Latin Americans who still remember what happened in Guatemala...