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...Elizabeth Taylor's crash program for getting her amplitude into shape for hot pants is said to have included a regimen of grapefruit juice, steak and vitamin B. The new, attenuated Taylor left London last week with Husband Richard Burton for a holiday in Switzerland and the U.S. Burton, who is taking a percentage rather than a salary for his soon to be released film Villain, then plans to begin "hovering," as he puts it, "over the box office return like a Welsh bird of prey...
...achieve authenticity, he spent six weeks tramping over bleak vistas in Wales and northern England. The cast, fortified by daily rations of vitamin C, slogged through gales, rain, freezing temperatures and even hailstones. Polanski, 37, whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing...
Twice a Nobel prizewinner (chemistry 1954, peace 1962), California Biochemist Linus Pauling has claimed a breakthrough in treatment of the common cold. His nonsecret: vitamin C, which was isolated in 1928. The vitamin-also called ascorbic acid-has never received its due, Dr. Pauling says, partly because the drug companies cannot make enough money out of it and partly because doctors generally prescribe doses just large enough to prevent scurvy. In a paperback, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W.H. Freeman & Co.; $1.95), Pauling recommends a daily 250-to-10,000 milligrams to keep colds from being caught, plus...
...study of water pollution in St. Louis two years ago, he invented a device that could measure pollutants and nutrients in water. He set the instrument in his goldfish pond and found that after a rainfall, particularly after a thunderstorm, the amount of free nutrients (vitamin B12, for example) in the water suddenly increased. Because such substances are normally associated with living organisms, Parker could not imagine why they should be present in rainwater-"unless there is something going on up there...
...commission directed Coca-Cola to stop advertising its Hi-C drink as particularly rich in vitamin C and "uniquely suitable" for children, because, said the FTC, it is neither a "sensible" nor economical source of nutrition. Also, the FTC ordered Standard Oil of California to quit promoting its Chevron F-310 as a nonpolluting gasoline, because, the commission contended, it contained only ordinary detergent used by many refiners. Unlike past FTC orders, these two require that any ad making such claims for either product during the next year must prominently include the FTC allegations. Officials at Coca-Cola and California...