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...annual Protestant rally, called Kirchentag, could be held in East Berlin next July, and had stopped Bishop Lilje and four other West German bishops on their way to a Sunday service at the Marienkirche. But the delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during his six-year term. At the same time they rebuffed the Communists by refusing even a seat on the Evangelical Church's governing council to Bishop Moritz Mitzenheim of Thuringia, the nearest thing to a fellow traveler in E.K.D. 's top echelon...
...freshmen also mastered their Princeton counterparts, 51 to 44. Complete victories in the 220 breaststroke, 400 relay, and in the 50, 220, and 440 freestyle events offset the magnificent performances of Princeton's Dave Kennedy and Jed Graef. Kennedy established a new Princeton freshman, university, and pool record of 2:11.5 in the individual medley; Graef broke Kaufmann's Princeton pool record in the 200 backstroke, establishing a national freshman, Princeton freshman and university record...
...bulk shortening by 1? per Ib. Kraft Foods warned that it might have to increase the price on a pound of margarine by a penny or so when its present supply of soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans is expected to keep soaring until it reaches $3 a bushel this year before it levels...
Drugs? There is no effortless way to control cholesterol, warns Dr. Keys. Some drugstores peddle bottles of artificially flavored safflower seed oil emulsion (polyunsaturated fat), suggest drinking it by the spoonful to offset the effects of saturated fat in the diet. Says Keys: "Nonsense. All this does is to increase the total fat intake and breed obesity." Although polyunsaturated fats are a healthful substitute for saturated fats, they make an ineffective antidote. It takes more than 2 oz. of polyunsaturated fat, says Keys, to reduce blood cholesterol by the same amount that 1 oz. of saturated fat increases...
...department stores were worried about Christmas sales, total retail sales held virtually steady for November at a seasonally adjusted $18.6 billion-down only $100 million from October, which rang up the second highest monthly rate in history. Durable-goods sales declined 2% from October, but the losses were partially offset by gains of food stores, restaurants and clothiers. Moreover, the Commerce Department cheerily predicted a sharp rise for December (see chart...