Word: arnolds
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Commando is a new action-adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the awe-inspiring Colonel Matrix, onetime leader of a special army operations strike force. Having retired to the mountains to lead a life of leisure with his 11-year-old daughter, the Colonel's life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when the little darling is kidnapped by a group of South American terrorists...
This year TIME is celebrating the achievements and careers of two of its most durable and valued employees, Makeup Chief Charles P. Jackson and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore...
...years ago, muscles were the most important thing," says Arnold Schwarzenegger. "People knew me for one thing, body building. They wanted to see me with the muscles. But eventually I think they will forget about the 'Body.' " Well, maybe, but they have not forgotten the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls or any other awesome force of nature. Nor are they soon likely to ignore Schwarzenegger's biceps, which are about as big around as watermelons at harvest time, his calves, which appear to have the diameter of a California redwood, or his stomach, which seems to be made of Vermont granite...
...strong ambition. By the time he was 15, he had decided he wanted to be a body builder, and hung pictures of a former Mr. Universe all around his room for inspiration. That former Mr. U., South African Reg Park, not only had muscles but money, and young Arnold wanted both. He created himself, pumping iron three or four hours a day. At 18 he was Mr. Europe Jr.; at 20 he was Mr. Universe himself, the youngest in the history of the contest. "Arnold wouldn't be content with anything less than perfection," says his fiancee, Maria Shriver...
Harvard approached the Town of Weston last spring with the offer to sell the property as a fundraiser for Harvard's financially-troubled Arnold Arboretum. The Arboretum is a 110-acre botanical research center which also maintains property in Boston's Jamaica Plain...