Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surveying the puzzling and contradictory evidence, Dr. Page offers a moderate summation: too much fat in the diet and too little are both bad. Anything below 15% is dangerous (he tried it himself for a year and found that he lost weight, energy and equanimity). Current U.S. levels are needlessly high. A nice balance: 25%. And he sees no decisive difference in the effects of vegetable and animal fats...
...Page is about the ideal weight for his 5 ft. 8 in.-and proud of it. One thing that helps keep him there is his token lunch, such as a bowl of clear soup and a gobbet of cottage cheese doused with ketchup, washed down with skim milk. Much of his exercise comes from running up and down stairs in the seven-floor lab building: it is quicker than waiting for an elevator and is good for the muscles in the leg arteries. In summer, Page plays singles tennis, but is careful to play only...
Born. To Jan Sterling (real name: Jane Sterling Adriance), 32, tough-gal-typed blonde cinemactress (Women's Prison), and Paul Douglas, 48, cinemactor (Green Fire): their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Adams. Weight...
...setting a maximum limit, possibly four years, on the time that a graduate student can take in getting his Ph.D. here; 2.) relieving students who are working for a Ph.D. of their teaching burdens by transforming teaching fellowships into postdoctoral positions; and 3.) stimulating individual Departments to eliminate "dead weight" from their degree requirements...
Because of the vast increase in numbers of college applicants expected during the next 15 years, he explained, "secondary schools will be driven to place increased weight on quality of preparation and to produce better prepared students." He suggested four guides for secondary school improvement...