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...Morning is a distant third. But the arrival of Kuralt, that laureate of the common man, has acted like a shot of vitamin B12. Within two weeks after he became anchorman on Oct. 27, Morning's ratings jumped from 2.5 to 3.5, an increase of 40%. Robert Northshield, the show's senior executive producer, is convinced that the amiable Kuralt, 46, who won millions of fans over the past 13 years for his evening news "On the Road" travels, will push them still higher. He says, "If anyone can raise the ratings, Charlie...
...long as they are used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...
...Nafha refused food. Since it is against the law in Israel to permit prisoners to die by their own hand, forced feeding was begun on some of the prisoners. A long tube was pushed down their throats into their stomachs while they sat on chairs. In three cases, the vitamin-and sugar-reinforced milk drink accidentally entered the lungs. As a result, two prisoners died of pneumonia, and a third became critically ill. When word of the deaths became public, a wave of protests spread among Jerusalem and West Bank Arabs...
...least a dozen methods have been tried, without notable success, to cure herpes. Among them: vitamin C, injections of inactive herpes viruses, fluorescent light, ether, even zinc in the diet. An ointment containing 2-deoxy-D-glucose seemed promising a year ago, but researchers are not so optimistic now. Acyclovir (ACV), an antiviral drug, looks promising, but testing is far from complete or conclusive. Smallpox vaccine has been tried unsuccessfully, and vaccines in general are viewed warily: if herpes does in fact cause cancer, some vaccines could increase the risk by increasing the number of herpes viruses in the body...
...Malnutrition blindness, or xerophthalmia, is the leading cause of blindness in children. Though incurable in the final stages, it can be prevented by 12? worth of vitamin A concentrate four times a year, or a daily handful of green vegetables. In the famine winter of 1972 in Bangladesh, 100,000 infants lost their sight. Says Wilson: "Of all the causes of blindness, this is the most obscene...