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...Charles E. Butterworth Jr., director of the nutrition program at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and chairman of the A.M.A.'s Council on Foods and Nutrition, charges that hospital diets are often inadequate to maintain a patient's health-and sometimes so bad as to actually worsen it. "I suspect," writes Butterworth in Nutrition Today, "that one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in America exists not in rural slums or urban ghettos, but in the private rooms and wards of our big city hospitals...
Bleak Outlook. It might be argued that that is not necessarily bad news: a strong expansion could worsen the nation's already horrendous inflation. Yet the outlook on prices is also bleak. True, a drop in farm goods held the rise in wholesale prices in June to an annual rate of 6%, the first less-than-double-digit figure in seven months. But even the usually optimistic Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, points out that farm prices are rising again in July and concedes that a continuing spiral in industrial commodity prices...
...Denison says Ex-Im has financed a Mexican factory that makes automobile springs that are shipped to the U.S. Recently, Ex-Im lent $75 million to the Bank of Tokyo to finance purchase by Japanese firms of 260,000 bales of U.S. cotton. Critics fear that that loan will worsen American inflation by raising the price of domestic cotton...
Quite a few conservatives have a dim view of Nixon's prospects. "He's not going to resign, and his credibility is going to worsen," complains Ashbrook...
Prodi said he fears a move to the right if conditions in Italy worsen and a strike takes place. "We must avoid unemployment, and the government must reach a gentleman's agreement with the trade unions to prevent trouble," he said...