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Jack LaLanne built his brawny business of spas and health products by preaching that "anything is possible through mind and body conditioning." Last week, to celebrate his 70th birthday in Long Beach, Calif., he put on what must be the definitive proof of the power of positive thinking. As a crowd of onlookers sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat, LaLanne, with his hands and feet bound, swam a mile through the city's harbor while towing 70 rowboats, each with at least one person inside. The feat took 2½ hours, but the triumphant human tug emerged from...
...present assault seems easy enough to explain away. Martin Luther King's birthday takes a whole day out of exam period: Christmas and New Years fall on Tuesday: and in the thirty-eight weeks between the third Monday in September and thirty-eighth Thursday after that, called Commencement, must fit two exam periods, 166 or 167 teaching days, and holidays for assorted national holidays...
...high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into the flight," when the main engines shut down...
...several years Harvard has celebrated the civil rights leader's birthday with a half day holiday. But this year, Law said, President Bok decided to make a full day holiday on the 3rd Monday of January, a year before the rest of the country. Congress last year voted, beginning in 1986, a January federal holiday honoring King...
...that is history. The Administration now must keep the economy humming along. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist of Morgan Guaranty Trust: "The top priority is to make sure the economic expansion continues." The U.S. recovery is about to celebrate its second birthday. Since World War II, the average upturn has lasted about four years, and so it is unlikely that the Reagan Administration will go through its entire second term without another economic dip, perhaps a sizable...