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...night. To the east, the moonlit rails turn molten in the Popsicle-or-ange sunrise. This is the time of day a kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...
Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said yesterday that the consumption of large doses of Vitamins A and D entails a "certain hazard." Ninety-five per cent of the population does not require vitamins in addition to a normal diet, he said...
...Variety is the sound principle of diet," said Stare. A sufficiently varied diet contains "all the vitamins you need," he said...
...Stare added that he knows of no one among the approximately 150 people working in nutrition at the School of Public Health who takes vitamin supplements...
While the announcer drones on about the minutes left to bet ("hurryhurryhurry" he says in a slurred voice), the hard-core lean over the fence, staring at the racing program. Every so often, they look up and stare blankly at the vacant track. As the race approaches, they wander off to the betting windows in search of the "big one for the night," the long-shot that will pay for the next week's betting...