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...debated importance of fats in the diet of patients with coronary atherosclerosis (narrowing of the heart's arteries by fatty deposits). A Philadelphia team headed by Dr. William Likoff fed volunteers a test meal containing radioactive fat. In normal subjects the fat concentration in the blood reached its peak in six hours, almost disappeared in 24 hours. In subjects with high blood levels of cholesterol, or with coronary disease, or with both, the fat reached a higher concentration in the blood, and much more of it remained there 24 hours later. The researchers' conclusion: such patients have...
TOURIST BOOM will bring record revenues this year for transatlantic airlines and shipping companies. From June through September, airlines lifted 459,500 passengers across Atlantic, about a 21% gain over same period of last year. During same peak 1957 season, steamships carried a near-capacity 496,000 passengers v. 481,000 in summer of 1956, and this September and October showed a 16% rise over last year...
...stepped down, Beth Steel was in glowing health. While other makers operated at about 80% capacity, Bethlehem was pouring 91%. And for the first nine months, the company announced last week, Beth Steel's sales hit a record $2,002,000,000 while earnings also reached a new peak of $144 million...
...soon went out of the buying wave. As in the U.S., where Wall Street had a similar case of the shakes (see BUSINESS), prices seesawed indecisively for the rest of the week. Shares listed on the exchange lost $5 billion in paper values since the market's June peak...
...gloomy news from the unstable Middle East, but most traders thought that a far more disquieting factor was an increasingly bearish view of business prospects in the eyes of many an investor. Business is still rolling along at the highest level in history; jobs were at a steady peak in September despite layoffs in the aircraft industry (see below); and retailers were predicting record sales for the rest of the year. Yet there was enough disturbing news on the nation's economic front last week to reinforce fears that 1957's fourth quarter, while good by most normal...