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...other hand, were the sons or grandsons of immigrants, were raised in poorer families, had to cope with considerably more adolescent problems than the college men. They married earlier, had more domestic problems, more financial worries, embarked on more home do-it-yourself projects. Finally, they faced an unfamiliar life in a big corporation in which they struggled hard to succeed. The Cornell team concluded: "Their relative ill health might well be regarded as the price they are paying for getting ahead in the world...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...
Foreigners visiting the unfamiliar New World have their problems, though it is just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation...
...said, he would submit a balanced budget of $79.8 billion-and this time the U.S. ought to rack up a surplus of $4.2 billion. The surplus would not go to a tax cut, but to cut down the $290 billion national debt. The President added an unfamiliar note: "Personally I do not feel that any amount can be properly called a surplus as long as the nation is in debt. I prefer to think of such an item as reduction on our children's inherited mortgage...
...farm program; he wants a minimum farm income to match labor's minimum wage. This is a formula that can do him no harm in the Senate race, and might commend him to Massachusetts' Kennedy, a big-city, East Coast boy who could use help in unfamiliar agricultural territory...