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...reduce cholesterol levels most doctors recommend a very un-American diet. Says Dr. Jeremiah Stamler of Northwestern University: "We need more fruit, more vegetables, beans, fish, skim milk, lean meat and poultry. I'd like to see McDonald's have fresh orange juice as well as Coke, baked potatoes as well as French fries, yogurt instead of pie. If we could get more diet changes in the U.S. there would not be a big coronary problem in this country...
...movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed out more than 800 to people in the com munity. "This is a grass-roots type of thing, and it is spreading like a fire," claims Morris Thurman, minister of the College Church of Christ...
Brian A. Thompson '63, chairman of the French department called the administration's tactics "un-American." "Anyone who is not reported to have met with classes is assumed to have cancelled," he said. "So you are guilty until proven innocent," he added...
...What we can't understand," he said, "is why your students are sitting still for the draft--complacency instead of resistance. It's almost un-American, that being like sheep...
There is little compassion in Naming Names, although it is scrupulously fair. Focusing on the role of informers in the "degradation ceremonies" of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Navasky interviewed dozens of former witnesses, both those who resisted the committee on First or Fifth Amendment grounds and those who cooperated with Congress by naming the names of friends, family and associates sympathetic to the Communist Party or other "subversive" organizations. In Naming Names, the moral detective first reconstructs these interviews, allowing the informers and resisters to speak for themselves, before he picks apart the justifications for informing and then...