Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME CHECK THE ORIGINAL CAPE TOWN REPORT IN THE "LANCET" AND REALIZE THAT THESE ENTHUSIASTIC COMMENTS WERE BASED ON ONLY EIGHT SUBJECTS WITH OBSERVATION PERIODS AVERAGING ONLY TEN DAYS? THE STUDY WITH THE TEN EGGS WAS ON ONLY TWO SUBJECTS. WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE FOR STATEMENTS THAT "THE PROPORTION OF FAT HAS GONE UP FROM 31% TO 41%, AND THE PROPORTION OF SATURATED TO UNSATURATED FATS HAS INCREASED STILL MORE SHARPLY"? IF THESE ARE CHANGES MEASURED BY RETAIL SALES OR AVAILABILITY OF FATS THEY PROVE NOTHING CONCERNING CHANGES IN FAT CONSUMPTION. FATS MAY WELL BE CONCERNED WITH ATHERO SCLEROSIS...
...prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...inevitable that O'Brien would become an athlete. His father, a former bush-league ballplayer good enough to earn a tryout with the 1926 Athletics, tried his best to steer his only son toward big-league baseball. But when Parry was not fooling around on the handy home-town beaches of Santa Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship at U.S.C. (major: business administration), where...
...with or drowns out the ghostly spatial chirpings. Last week, after a one-year search, the National Science Foundation announced happily that it had awarded a contract to Associated Universities, Inc. for the construction of the nation's largest radio telescope in what proves to be the quietest town in the eastern U.S.-little (pop. 100) Green Bank, W. Va., 50 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs...