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Claims that a few capsules of safflower oil taken daily will stave off heart disease are so misleading that they have fallen under Government ban. But polyunsaturates in moderate amounts may be beneficial, so many leading U.S. food processors are supplying new fats in new forms to meet a growing demand...
...Congress will almost certainly do just that, probably by the 15% to 20% that it usually lops off aid bills. But Kennedy's hope is to stave off deeper cuts in the face of general congressional weariness with foreign aid. To assuage the aid program's critics, he pointed out that the Administration's new aid program began only four months ago and has not had time to operate perfectly. Though he is sending a whole battery of top lieutenants to preach the new program's virtues to Congress, the chief job of making reforms...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
They are 1961's most fateful labor negotiations. On them, and the negotiations at Ford and Chrysler that began later in the week, will depend in large part whether the nation will be able to stave off an other wave of inflation...
Premier Amini also raised his voice loud enough to be heard in Washington. The sum of $40 million was needed instantly to stave off bankruptcy and collapse. In the past ten years, the U.S. has sunk more than a billion dollars into Iran in economic and military aid, but Washington will undoubtedly dig deep enough once more at least to keep Amini afloat...