Word: ruth
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...various schools live off campus, but more students wanted on-campus housing this year than the usual 3000, so Northeastern leased the sixth and seventh floors of the Boston YMCA to accomodate about 140 of the extras, and the school is leasing apartment space to take in another 40, Ruth Zung, staff assistant to the university's housing office, said yesterday...
Dietary fiber, said Dr. Ruth M. Kay of the University of Toronto, consists of those parts of edible plants that are resistant to the human digestive enzymes, so that they pass through the system virtually unchanged until they encounter bacteria in the large bowel. There are three basic kinds of fiber. The simplest is cellulose; the four-chambered stomach of cattle can readily digest this form, but the single human stomach cannot. Next comes a group of polysaccharides, consisting of complex sugar chains. The third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides...
...projector at Stamford Saturday nights, and generally neglects television. He had to give up golf because of a bad back ("Played one hole last year and had to be carried off in a golf cart"), but still tinkers and putters, and he enjoys browsing in hardware stores. Says Sister Ruth: "His idea of a good time is coming to visit and cleaning my car, then straightening my house." He keeps his desk as uncluttered as his sister's car, and moves through the Times building with mild good humor. He places many of his own calls when...
President Jimmy Carter sent a telegram asking the Charismatics to pray for him to make "the right decision toward bringing world peace." The President's sister Ruth Carter Stapleton appeared in person to tell how prayers had resolved her daughter's emotional problems. "We have to stop condemning all these problemed people," she said, "and to know that within each one there is a little hurting child, and that child is able to be healed...
Brother Jimmy hugs and kisses his friends in public, and so, on occasion does his sister Baptist Faith Healer Ruth Carter Stapleton. At Manhattan's New York New York discotheque, she showed up for the 35th birthday party of Freelance Writer Dotson Rader who is researching an article about her for the New York Times Magazine. Stapleton; 46, danced a bit and inspired some affectionate smooching from the guest of honor, who finds her "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met." Stapleton also spent part of the evening in the disco vestibule with Rader...