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East European sources said yesterday he may be tired after a four-day trip to East Germany earlier this month. They said Brezhnev, an avid hunter, could not turn down an invitation to join East German officials for a 6 a.m. hunting expedition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brezhnev Sick | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...avid jogger himself, Lukash has been running for 3½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I've Got to Keep Trying | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...SELF-REACTOR: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. In this picaresque, passion is reserved for the playing field. Despite his experiments with sex and drugs, Fabian truly gets high on Fabian. With characteristic insouciance, the author describes his hero's liaisons: "He found himself selecting, isolating, soliciting partners as transient and avid as himself, as ready to initiate, as willing to discard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Going Is the Goal | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Richards was an avid mountaineer as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. A. Richards, Literary Critic, Dies at 86 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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