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...They also eat little of the foods that contain much cholesterol, such as egg yolks, shellfish and organ meats. On the basis of early research, scientists assumed that the cholesterol found in mushy, atheromatous deposits in diseased coronary arteries came from the cholesterol consumed in foodstuffs. They had to abandon this simplistic view as soon as they realized that the human body manufactures cholesterol from several raw materials, notably the hard animal fats...
...Priests and nuns will abandon their vocations in increasing numbers. "It has now become quite easy to leave the religious life, in the sense that there are relatively few social sanctions imposed on those who depart; on the contrary, of ten they persuade themselves that they are heroes...
...diet of the Soviet citizen. But during five years of U.S.-Soviet detente, listeners in the Soviet Union had a simple alternative. A flick of the dial pulled in Western news, commentary-and even the throbbing beat of hard rock music. Moscow's decision in June 1963 to abandon jamming Western programs was an indication of the U.S.S.R.'s interest in a rapprochement with the Western world. Now the jamming is on again...
...defiantly going ahead with their scheme to establish a workers' council despite Russia's objections. Says Factory Director Frantisek Nedomlel: "We are hurrying its organization along as quickly as possible so that we will have it fully in operation before we get any direct orders to abandon it." In a letter published by the trade-union newspaper Prace, moreover, a group of factory workers threatened a general strike if Russia attempted to sack Reformer Smrkovsky...
...also possible that the Faculty will now use the sit-in as an excuse to abandon the issue of ROTC completely. To do so would be a mistake. There are a great many people at Harvard who are very determined to see the University's one-sided relationship with ROTC amended, and yesterday's demonstration has certainly not changed this...