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...body's failure to oxidize an amino acid, phenylalanine, to tyrosine. Probable cause of the failure is a defective enzyme. The Pauling project: to find out the connection between the molecular and men tal defects, and also whether the other 99% or more of mental defectives owe their handicap to a similar molecular abnormality caused by a combination of defective genes in their parents...
Raising the Standards. The sharpest increase has been in short-term consumer credit. As disposable income quadrupled since 1939, consumers raised their debt accordingly (from $7.2 billion to $37.1 billion), now owe an average 13% of take-home pay. With the addition of housing debt, the consumers' total unpaid balance in mid-1956 represented $800 for every man. woman and child in the U.S., v. $180 in 1939. From go-now, pay-later trips abroad to fill-your-teeth-on-time plans, installment buying now covers almost every contingency from womb to tomb...
PERSONAL DEBTS are owed by 63 % of all U.S. family units, according to a Federal Reserve Board survey. About 9% owe on mortgages alone, another 17% have both mortgage and other debts, some 37% owe nonmprtgage debts only. Of the 20% of families who owe money on cars, one-fifth report repayment periods of 31 to 36 months; one-third 25 to 30 months; two-fifths 24 months or less...
...diplomacy was a relatively simple matter of buying allies or buying off potential enemies. In mid-20th century diplomacy, financial dealings must be disguised under such inoffensive names as mutual assistance, economic cooperation or foreign aid, and economic aid has increasingly become regarded as a debt that rich nations owe poor ones. Prince Metternich never had to wrestle with some of the difficulties that preoccupied diplomats and governments all over the world last week. Items...
JACKSON : Do you feel that you owe an apology to the Congress...