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...population smoke; about the same number admit to sometimes drinking too much. In addition, says Skinner, "people tend to overestimate what they do and underestimate what they eat." Many fool themselves in other ways, too. Of 2,256 middle- to top-level executives studied by the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor's Fitness Research Center, only 47% reported that they exercised regularly. But 91% claimed they were in good or excellent shape. Those who try to take up working out often fail. If they do not have the start-and-stop fidgets, many exercisers have the fitness flitters, endlessly switching from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Shape of the Nation | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...father got a new job with a parts supplier now known as the Bundy Corp. Young Smith went off to the University of Michigan during World War II, then spent two years in the Navy. He finished the work for his bachelor's degree in business administration at Ann Arbor in 1947, earned an M.B.A. there two years later and immediately joined GM's accounting department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Toledo, Mr. Smith! | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...improve the odds that posterity will see things his way, Nixon has outlined his version of what happened in his memoir RN (1978); in two books about superpower conflict, The Real War (1980) and Real Peace (1984); and in No More Vietnams, published this month (Arbor House; 237 pages; $14.95). The compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Richard Nixon's Tough Assessment | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...LATE CHRISTY MATHEWSON of the New York Giants standards on the mound, pitching for a baseball team composed of stars who shone when that appellation still meant something. They are the aptly named Dead Knights, facing Ann Arbor's South Avenue Rovers. It is 1942, and the Rovers are home on furlough from all corners of the war. If they win, they will live to tell about it. If the Knights win, their coach, Death, will take the Rovers...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Now You See It... | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

BROWN (81)-Sue Maloney 2-0-4; Michelle Smith 9-3-21; Christa Champion 5-0-10; Kerry Kelley 0-9-9; Donna Yaffe 8-6-22; Carole Kozar 2-1-5; Katie Curtis 3-2-8; Christine Arbor 1-0-2; Carolyne Robinson 0-0-0; Denise Clark 0-0-0; Stephanie Maggart 0-0-0. Totals...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Quick Brown Zips Past Women Cagers, 81-67 | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

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