Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affairs Committee last May, Representatives Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine found a disturbing strain in the traditionally good relations between the U.S. and Canada. Last week Democrats Hays and Coffin, who traveled 7,000 miles talking to Americans and Canadians, produced a more detailed report. Conclusion: while relations have "improved" since spring in the sense that both nations are aware of their differences, that awareness has led to "the discovery of an ever-enlarging number of problems...
Spread on Bread. In a report written jointly with Dr. Helen B. Brown. Dr. Page notes that in the average U.S. diet today, 42% of calories are taken in form of fats, 14% as protein and 44% as carbohydrates. Of the fats, 85% are of animal origin or artificially hydrogenated, and therefore mainly saturated.* while 15% are of vegetable origin and comparatively unsaturated...
...nail down the relationship between on-the-job physical activity and heart-artery disease, Drs. Jeremy N. Morriss and Margaret D. Crawford of Britain's Medical Research Council persuaded 206 hospitals to report on post-mortem examinations of the hearts and coronary arteries of 5,000 men, regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks...
...longtime (1933-53) Harvard President James B. Conant: more than a year's close study of U.S. high schools has left him much less concerned with programs in mathematics and science than with a "most distressing situation" in the teaching of foreign languages. Conant's bluntly-worded report: "In school after school only two years of any language were offered ... I submit that to study a language for two years, even two languages for two years each, is a waste of time...
...Chandler spent four years in the Navy before going to work in paper production in 1946. He was a sales vice president of Union Bag and a director of 13 companies (including Standard Packaging) when Wall Street Financier Edward Elliott in 1955 asked him to write a report on ailing Crowell-Collier, in which Elliott held a sizeable interest. After recommending that the magazines be killed, Chandler became temporary chairman. When Elliott turned to Standard (he owns about 5% of the stock), he put Chandler in command...