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4.The MGH line: No, we're not talkingMass General Hospital here. Then again, none ofMessrs. Steve Martins, Cory Gustfson and TommyHolmes could lay claim to the title of "MostGenerally Healthy" either. Each of them has beengrounded at one point during the last 16 monthsdue to the aliment or another...
...invention of the icebox in 1803, the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the development of the vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process...
...Federalist No. 10, Madison wrote that "liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life." Historically, such liberty could have led to splinter-party chaos; the U.S. instead channeled the political urge into two institutionalized parties. In their adversary relationship, they act as delicate checks upon one another, capitalizing on the deep American fear of unrestrained power. Though few voters would...
Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of the Harvard Law School, was reported is "fair" condition yesterday afternoon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He developed an inteutinal aliment Sunday, and is now under close observation...
Divine, one of the team's weakest events last year, is again unpromising. Jeff Lewy, last year's top man, is suffering from a leg aliment and Clark Peters is now in the hospital, recovering from a minor operation. Sophomores Jay. Shelton and John Heuser have improved since last year, but lack experience in varsity competition...