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...businessman checks into the health center and is issued his sweat pants until he leaves for home with a plan for daily exercise, he will be under close medical scrutiny and a Spartan regimen laid out by a board of 21 physicians. A 7 a.m. phone call will awaken him for 7:30 breakfast. Then he will bend, stretch, stoop in 30 minutes of calisthenics, plunge into steam and Finnish baths, face up to an "iron virgin"−drenching device which bombards the body with water from high-pressure jets. And after throwing medicine balls, punching bags, lifting dumbbells...
...next five years. The prospect for such success is hardly encouraging; the French Assembly is not noted for its miracles. But the importance of a stable French government to Western Europe and the free world is worth at least the effort. If this week's election results awaken France's leaders to their responsibilities, her present crisis could yet become her greatest boon...
Friedman added that his two friends both came from the same town as the girl they were trying to awaken. "Rich is famous down there for pulling this sort of a prank all the time," he said. Friedman is from New York, Rich and Harris from Haddonfield...
...important than the right to work." At any rate, we wish Mr. Prochnow luck in his new job at the State Department, and we hope he thinks up many more ways "to point out the foibles of men, to goad them into action, to shatter their pride, and to awaken humor." STEPHEN R. BARNRTT
...literary painters-Homer, George Inness and Thomas W. Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair, N.J. Art Museum. Painted in 1859, it is the museum's most popular picture...