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What causes the slowdown in replace ment? Gerontologists cannot be sure, but their highest-powered laboratory tech niques are now concentrated on enzymes, those little-understood "organic catalysts" that regulate all the functions of metabo lism-both breakdown (catabolism) and buildup (anabolism). With age, a digestive change definitely involving an enzyme occurs in the salivary glands : they secrete less ptyalin, an enzyme that converts starch into sugars. Researchers believe that there may be many such changes...
...AUTO SLOWDOWN is hitting Detroit just as 1959 production starts. Some 5,600 United Auto Workers left jobs in five plants last week in worst labor trouble since industry's contracts expired three months ago. Companies figure U.A.W. President Walter Reuther is flexing his muscles, expect more brief strikes...
SHIPBUILDING SLOWDOWN is growing serious. U.S. shipyards have had no new commercial orders since March. Work under way in yards will soon dip below 3,000,000 tons for first time in 18 months...
...Slowdown in Speedup. In Belgium, usually the first European country to suffer when the demand for steel and coal slumps, industrial output has sagged 6% in the first quarter of 1958. Bank of Brussels Economist Albert de Lettenhove reports "no signs as yet of any revival-the recession may have reached bottom in the States, but not here...
...dominant note everywhere is concern, not panic. Economies are generally sound, employment high and currency strong. To Dr. Erhard, the engineer of the German production miracle, a slowdown is not without advantages for his highly flexible economy, for rising costs were beginning to threaten Germany's competitive position. And one Italian economist dismisses his own country's recession as no more than "a slowdown in the speedup...