Nutritional guidance in Action Line Q&A column
Readers ask about vitamin loss in canned fruits and vegetables, storage effects, and how to preserve nutrients. The bulletin notes roughly 10 to 25 percent vitamin C losses under various temps, with carotene and thiamine retention. Advice covers using can liquids, rapid reheating, and requesting Home and Garden Bulletin No. 90 from Greensboro.
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Nursing Homes Turn Into Rich Federal Cash Farms
A nationwide AP study finds nursing homes profit from Medicaid and Medicare while neglecting patients. Abuses include stolen funds, excessive Medicare billing, mass doctor visits, overuse of sedatives, and understaffing. Mental patients are housed without proper care as hospitals discharge them to die in facilities.
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James R. Polk
Associated Press
Washington
America
el Granada
Calif
Jefferson
Tex
Topeka
Kan
Michigan
Detroit
American Medical Association
Morton Aleiberman
University of See Nursing
Prices Rise Again in August Driven by Food Housing Costs
Government report shows cost of living up four tenths of one percent in August led by higher food housing and medical care. Egg prices jumped 20 percent from July to August while rents rose the most in 13 years. Consumer Price Index reached 128.7 costing $12.87 for the same basket as base period.
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Washington
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chase
Lopez Mateos Dies Former Mexican President at 59
Mexico City AP reports former President Adolfo LopezMateos, a popular leader who served from 1958 to 1964, died after a long illness that left him largely paralyzed for more than two years. He first fell ill in 1965, underwent aneurysm surgery, and suffered a stroke in 1967. He had been in a wheelchair but watched events on television. a former amateur boxer and soccer player.
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Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Mexico
Lopez Mateos
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James Poppen
Boston
China Watchers Discount Rumors Of Mao's Illness
Hong Kong observers discounted rumors Mao Tse tung is seriously ill, noting no confirmation from contacts in China. Some tie rumors to fewer Mao posters for Oct 1 National Day, while Time magazine cited a Moscow report of a stroke and critical condition.
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Pentagon Announces Deep Cuts in U S Armed Forces
The Pentagon weathered new defense cutbacks by 77 500 personnel. The Navy will lay up 22 ships and 98 this year total, with 209 planes removed from active stock. Air Force manpower falls 50 000 and Marines 20 300 as part of a 3 billion dollar slimming plan.
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Pentagon
U. S
5Th Marine Division
Vietnam
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Pueblo
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Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Mexican airliner crash kills twenty four near Mexico City
A Mexicana Boeing 727 arriving from Chicago crashed near the end of Mexico City International Airport, killing 24 of 118 aboard. The aircraft broke into three sections, with the nose buried in mud in swampy ground, while survivors reported a violent descent and difficult evacuations. Survivors include Clay Danielson of Gates Mills Ohio and Graciela Flores Alvarado among others.
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Gates Mills
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Graciela Flores Alvarado
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Milwaukee
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