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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-02-26, Page 2eitheeseeeiie 86Y of THAI Bengai VIET' NAM 9 NEKSeAP.1 A , • - Iiiiiitestipel" Sir' Winston in. 1932t eis411.,1 ss4 i4eissiessesliiees, CHAMPAGNE FOR AUGUST — A real ham, "August " the hog - is one big piggie determined not to go to market in. Munich, Germany. Urged by trainer Hans Hepertys, August ,stands on his hind legs to beg. PerforMing the trick earns the 350-pound porker a glass of champagne and stays the most dreaded trick of all: suddenly turning into bacon and pork chops. .1 4 TABLE TALKS dam Anckews. VOICING A'COMPLAINT The Postmaster General's of- fice in Brisbane, Australia, was inundated with inquiries from indignant telephone subscribers asking why their telephone ac- counts were arriving in enve- lopes bearing the legend: "A Still. Tongue Makes a Good Citizen." They were all puzzled and very annoyed. It was explained that the .authorities were using up war- time envelopes as part of an economy drive. , cup lightly packed brown. sugar 1,4 cup milk • :14, teaspoon vanilla PA cups (about) sifted icing sugar. Melt butter in a saucepan; 'stir in brown sugar.. • • • • Boil over low direct heat 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in milk and heat to boiling point. Remove from heat and cool to lukewarm, Add and mi>t in vanilla. Work in sufficient icing sugar to make a frosting of spreading consistency. Spread frosting over cold cake and decorate with Brazil nut curls. By EUGENE A. STEAD, M.D. Duke University Medical Center Written 14 NEA Service DURHAM, N.C. —*(NEA) The vital organs of- the body become sick and die in one of two ways: either the cells making up these organs become injured and die although adequately supplied with blood, or healthy cells die because the arteries bringing the blood to them have beccme clogged. In our society, the second way of dying is most common n Obit- uary writers usually refer 'only 'to the immediate event, perhaps -a heart attack or a etrokehWhat we are concerned with here is the condition which sets the stage for the event. This is ate:- eroeclerosis — target of one of the most intensive research et- :tells in the history of medicine. The problem is similar to that of 'the plumbing in a ho-use, In order to keep a good flow of water, we must have a reason- able head of pressure. In the body this head of pressure is supplied by the heart; we record it as blood preesure. If the pressure head is too high in one's household plumb- ing; we have undue wear on the pipes, which show a tendency to bulge and leak at the joints, in man, high blood pressure, or Flowiless Cake This recipe for floerles.s cake is something extra special, and. IroIA will see frOM the directions that it is a very Old and treaS- t.lrecl. reeipe, I can • remember when my granclinOther used -Xi*Uth,ing leSS. than a 'silver fork beet the 'whites of eggs for 11.e' r special Oakes, I don't: really "think she would approve of elee- Irk MiXersl. Walnut Flpurlm Cake 7 eggs separated 1 level teaspoon cream tartar 1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla • '1 quart English walnuts ground fine Beat egg yolks until pale lens- sen yellow and thick, In large crock , whip whites with . a wire. whisk — or at very low speed wrtil foamy, then add the cream. € tartar with a sprinkle of salt and continue beating until stiff (end they will not fall when teocls. is turned upside down). Now fold in the yolks and sifted sugar. Run the walnut meats through the finest blade of yew food chopper and add last for the mixture, folding carefully. tine layer cake pans with oiled paper and pour mixture into them. Bake in a slow oven about CHAOS—One of history's great- est earthquakes took place in the Gobi-Altal Mountain area of Outer Mongolia last December 4, `reports Izvestia, official So- viet's publication. The quake, compared with "prehistoric con- vulsions" of the earth, is said fa have moved mountains, cre- ated new valleys and diverted rivers. An expedition to the area reports one gigantic crev- "Ice 65 feet wide and 155 miles tong. the same way angel cake is baked. The cake should rise to entire height before any part of the surface browns, When ready to serve, put together with sweet- ened, well-flavored,., whipped cream; place on your Silver platter or eleee plate, and serve with a flourish, from the table. The cake may be baked early in the day but do not put to- gether until serving time. A gourmet's delight!—by Mary E. Wall in The Christian Science Monitor, Worked. Too Hard John Marshall, a e5-year-old German immigrant, tried his best making piston rings in a British engineering plant. His best, it turned out, was too good. Last month, Marshall was scorn- ed by his workmates, joblese, and branded for life as "the man who worked too hard." All the workers at the Shef- field plant of Lockwood and Carlisle, Ltd., had agreed among themselves to limit their piece- work output to 70 cents' worth per hour — all, that is, except Marshall. • The immigrant turned out as many pistons as he could, and the weekly paycheck he tobk home to his wife and daughter was regularly about $1 more than that of the other workers. That started the trouble. Summoned before a kangaroo court run by the engineering union's Communist-dominated lo- cal branch, Marshall was found guilty of overwork. The branch ordered him to give his "excess" earnings, to its sick fund. He re- fused; the union booted him out. That meant dismissal from the closed-shop factory. Solne 700,000 British mine- workers, whose man-hour pro- duction has been slipping, last week demanded a reduction in surface workers' 421/2 -hour work week, already one of the shortest in Europe. In hard-worker John. Marshall's native Germ any, which has been capturing many British markets, West German Economics Minister Ludwig Er- hard told labor unions they should up their average 45-hour week by another hour. —From NEWSWEEK. BOTTLE PARTY There was nothing wrong with the nerves of the gang which raided a grocer's shop in Copenhagen, stole a number of bottles of wine_and, after drain- ing them, later returned to the shop, requestingepayment of the deposit money on the bottles! ONION-POTATO SOUP 'You might like to dust the top of the soup with paprika or minced parsley — the bit of, color is attractive against the white. Yield — 3 or 4 servings, 1 can (approx. 10 ounces) consomme 3,4 cup mashed potatoes 2 teaspoons grated onion 3/2 cup milk cup cream Salt and pepper Blend consomme into mashed potatoes. . Add onion. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Press through a fine sieve; add milk and cream. Season to taste with salt and, pepper. Either chill or bring just to the scalding point. Serve in cups with a sprinkle of chopped parsley or paprika, MUFFINS 2 cups once-sifted pastry . ' flour or 1 2/3 cups once- sifted an-purpose flour 3 1/2 teaspoons biking powder teaspoon salt 3/4 -cup granulated sugar 3 tablespoons chilled shortening 1 'Will-beaten egg cup milk 3/4 cup mincemeat. Sift pastry• or' all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together once, 'then into a bowl. Add shortening and cut it in finely. Combine' well-beaten egg, ipilk and mincemeat. _ Make a well in dry ingredients, add liquids and mix together liightly. s Two-thirds fill 12 greased muffin .pans. Bake in a moderately hot over,, 375 degrees, about 20 minutes. Yield — 1 dozen medium-sized muffins. * * Here are a couple of frosting recipes you. might like to _try. The first, with its flecks of color throughout is extremely decora- tive as well as delightful. Yield — sufficient frosting to fill and ,frost an 8s. or 9-inch round layer cake. 2 egg whites 2/3 cup light corn syrup 2 tablespoons water 54 teaspoon salt Few drops vanilla IA cup chopped Brazil nuts .Y1 cup finely chopped red maraschino cherries 1/2 cup finely cut raisins or dates; Combine• egg whites, corn syrup, water and salt in top of double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat With a hand rotary beater ° or electric mixer set at highest speed until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla; continue to beat until frosting is of spreading Cen- sistericy. Remove .about Vs of the frost, inging to another bowl; mix in Brazil nuts, cherries and taisitis ri Or dates ad tide as a filling be- twketi the layers. Use the remaining larger, quantity of frosting, to frost top and sides of cake. Gatnish cake With _Brazil nut rsliiecses and red maraschino cher- * ButnitSCOTCH FROSTING An excellent way to top a chocolate, coffee, caramel, golden Or yellow cake, Yield — Sufficient frosting to frost a Ix]] -inch cake, 14 bhp butter Getting Ready To • Sail The Ocean. Sid Mashford Was sitting in the cockpit at Felicity Ann leaf- ing through a list of modifica- tiO.ns that Humphrey had made out, • • "There's .a lot of work here," Said Sid, "and this is our busi- est time of year. Vreryone wants their boats ready and launched for Easter, Are you sure, all this IS necessary?" I thought I*could detect a eel's fain resentment, FA was a yard production;:designed by Sid and built by- the seirrnelThera are few things a man is more sensitive about,, than, the qualities, of his ,,`boat. Humphrey had sent speci- "fications; out' ley the firm of Laurent Giles for `entirely new rigging "as the mast is stepped on dedk we, cannot take any chane'ds," Humphrey had written and' drawings 'for a reduced 'sail plan;' which meant taking six feet .off the mast and eight inches of the boom, There was to be a watertight ,and self- draining cockpit, A twenty-five gallon water tank fitted under the cockpit. A spray hood for the protection of the helmsman. There were drawings too, for high steel stanchions, "anything less than thirty inches is use- less," stated Humphrey empha- ' tically. These were for lifelines to keep the crew (me) within bounds, and a pulpit to fence in the stemhead and prevent the crew (me) from plunging head- leng over the bows. There were further drawings for two beau- tiful staysails, twin sails for running/downwind, with appro. peiate specifications for the booms' to wing them out, and stays to hank them on, and top- ping lifts to support the booms. They were, I could see, some- what exaggerated requirements for anyone apparently just wanting a splash and a bobble in the sound on a sunny Sunday afternoon. "You see," I said at last in desperation, "I want to sail her across the Atlantic."—From "My Ship Is So Small," by Ann Da- vison, Have Guns, Will Teach A cowboy actor who is slow on they draw these days is really: dead on television. Never has the cross ,fire for rating's been so fierce: 21 network Westerns A week, with a staggering average audience of 12 million, and one, Gunsmoke, has more viewers than any other TV program — over 17 million homes, "'accord- ing to a recent Nielsen report. The fastest gun-slingers in the' business,. however, are not the slow - speaking quick - on - the - draw heroes on screen but a couple of Los Angeles characters who teach them how to handle a six-gun. One is a 51-year-old Indian named Rodd Redwing, MS ALIBI blood, which, varies pompoei e tion frOin minute to .minute throughout ea:Plit-24 hotirs, When there breakelosshi in any of the' series of integrated reactions giving the properties of life to the arterial wall, the end result is an abnormal blood ves- sel. All changes in ',eirticture" which affect the innerlining of the large and medium-sized blood vessels, producing the pic- ture of atherosclerosie. These changes do „not, have „ a single cause. In this' article; f 'shall ifel tempt to e*pl'ain the many cold plea chemical .changes ^involved, as the life chain inethe -arterial wall is broleen.e l.. shell e rnereeye note that it IS in `thfe 'iySCene of multiple ciVe"t° a lifethrie, that -we are -try g , to pick out things that are inv portant in the development of blood vessel disease. Over the yearS, we have con- Centrated first on the descriptive phase of blood ,,'vessel disease (how it develop arid how it can be rechgnied 'in life and death), and , seeridly "the study' or the' effects en- various organs of,ta decrease in blood supply., These were problems that could be un- dertaken by practicing physi- cians, who have made large con, tributions in these ,areas, But the problems Of the' chem- istry of living cells, the chemis- try of complex giant molecules, the physics of elastic tubes comr posed of many substances, the chemistry of the enzymes con- -trolling blood clotting, the ef- fects of hormones on the state of the vessel walls and many other factors proved too complex 'for the practicing ephysician pad his conventional tools of medi- cine, es Hence, lie has turned to uni- versities and. medical schools FRP. the training of young people capable of studying the basic bio. 'logical, biochemical and bio- =physical properties of the blood_ vessels and of the blood ine the complex *environment of the' body. Its costs money to train these Th"en, to provide space to house their training, and to buy the type of equipenent never before freely used in medical schools. Once the trainin period it completed, there is' a need to supply long=range financial sup- port to keep the investigator tit his chosen research career. There ace ,many facets of the problerri'.'Beeedly, its solution des pencls tilsbn expansiOn.• of' medical research, You support this type' of research when you contribute to the Heart loiind of the American Heart Association and its affiliates. Next: Nutrition and your arteries IR WINSTON'S WORK — Reproduced below are two of a col- tectiOn of 35 paintings by Sir Winston Churchill which will be . shown to American audiences for the first time in a tour of'art museums during 1958. Churchill is not a professional artist and has never sold any of his paintings, but in the opinion of most art authorities and laymen, who have viewed his work, he is a versatile and extraordinarily skilled amateur. Churchill be- gan to paint as a diversion in 1915 after he was forced to relinquish his post as First Lord of the Admirality following British failure to seal off the Black Sea in their ill-starred Dardanelles campaign. From 1916 through 1957, Churchill paint- ed some 300 canvases, most of which he has kept.. His paint- ings include landscapes and seascapes painted on three con- tinents, a number of still lifes, and one work entitled "Bottle- *cape," and arrangement of wine and liqueur bottles. glasses and what appear to be cigar boxes. "Plug Street;" one of Churchill's earliest; Wert done in 1916. CIO ATHEROSCLEROS IS hypertension, increases the, stress on the blood vessels and tends to wear them out prematurely, The plumbing in a house will last for a 'variable number of years, depending on the kinds of pipes originally installed and on the properties of the water cir- culating through.them : Various types of materials dissolved or suspended in the water will have an effect on the bore of the pipes, and will be one factor in deter- mining how long the pipes re- main open. These same variables are pres- ent in the system which circu- lates the blood. The type of blood vessel' in our body 'is a function of heredity. In certain families, blood vessel disease is nearly un- heard of until very- old age; In others, many die from stopping up of the arteries before the age of 50. The composition of the of the blood also has an effect on the blood vessel walls. . Our comparison with the house plumbing breaks down at this point. Walls of blood vessel's and the fluid circulating in them are far more complexe Artery walls are made up of living ,tissues and thejr, products. They ,contain hundreds of slits ferent Substances 'iii riertaiff''.fht, ed relationships, •and are living systemS of great complexity in composition, hi anatomy and in function. Also complex is the BLOCKADED CHANNELS: these three cross sectional views Of 'id hunian artery tell the Story if attierokierails Left, a normal Mood vessel's trriboth lining presente riti"Oligtottle to the flow of blood: Center, lesions composed of fatly-like Stihttaii* anti the other a 37-.year old Finn inn4tilt:a cicirnygQ. Qj11a -- rivals baQntiti selling special holsters, And it's a serious pursuit. "Kids are getting so wise about 'Westerns," says .0jaia.,. "they count the shots, If a gun, man • gets to six .and doesn't re- load, they turn off the program," Ojala, who used to farm apples in Washington, refers to his rival as "that phony Indian" and on thapsic-r4i;Of his wn "Hollywood Fast-Draw pears the bOast; "Throtigh These Portals Walk.. the Fastest Guns in the World," Among. them are: Hugh O'Brian (Wyatt Earp), Jim. Garner (Maverick), Richard Boone (Have Gun, Will Travel), Wayde Preston (Colt .45), Clint Walicer. (Cheyenne), Jim Arness (Gunsmoke), and Will Hutchins. (Sugareoot), Redwing actually is a genuine Indian, mere Chickasaw though he was born in, New York of actor parents and once went to school in Westminster, England. Be reached Hollywood as en Indian bit player, and started cutting Hollywood holsters in 1937. "Ojala just copied my stuff," says Redwing. —From NEWSWEEK "Why are you running away?" the bully asked a small, timid- looking man. "I thought you said you could lick me with one hand tied behind your back." "That's right," came the reply, "I'm just, going home to get some string." NUMBER ONE HEALTH ENEMY SPUTNIKS FOR illitAKFAST = Beginn[ng in , February ,early fiiers in upstate.• New Yaik can -start learriina Russian vio TV, called-,cholesterol have begun to form the yvIlh the result the artery Is partially doted. Kitht the closure almost coMplete and o "Clot may stop the flow of OXygeriatect This is Theciet attatk". Nose-in Our Kitchen The United Stales pr/riling, c4 f 4.: flew for 15e will send you' an - illustrated, 53 page pamphlet on the "Development ..of Rapid Methods of "Soaking and Coolcmg.. Dry Beans,' The booklet, says the printing office blurb, presents With the aid of 22 tables "the results of studies made on cooking dry beans in covered saucepans and cooking them in a pressure, saucepan," The methods .describ- odi says the Printing office, will save time. Here, almost, is treason! it is basic to American culinary art and tradition that the prepara- tion of , the dry bean for eon. iumptiott shohld never be rush-, ed. Neither can a saucepan, or- dinary,or pressure, Play a pert in its Properly prepared beans must be soaked at least overnight. Properly cooked they are placed in a crock — tenderly layered. with onions, salt pork, a touch of dry mustard, salt and pepper, Our own school holds with 'boil- ing them first, and adding, some of the liquor to the crock. Then they are baked — as slowly as possible, as long as possible, with careful • attention to their mois- ture content and without a cover the last hour or so to brown the top layer of pork. Rapid methods of soaking and cooking dry beans, indeed! The government's got enough to do without sticking its nose into our kitchen. —Milwaukee Journal