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...ILIE NASTASE, in his campaign for mayor of Bucharest, it's the only policy. "Everybody's lying in this city," says Nastase, who clearly isn't going to flatter his way into the job. "I want to be the first Romanian who didn't lie." Nastase, a little chubbier and wrinklier than when he won every Grand Slam title except Wimbledon, but with the same swinging '70s hairstyle, got the notion to run after a friend persuaded him to join the ruling Social Democracy Party last September. "In the beginning it was a joke," he told Time Central Europe bureau...
Sullivan, who has been out of the public eye since being relieved of her morning anchor duties in 1990, is more defensive about her return -- looking significantly chubbier -- as a Weight Watchers salesperson. "I got into journalism to bring people insights," says Sullivan. "I can do the same thing with this. To give people a sense of personal success is something I am thrilled about...
...children. The oldest boy, about ten, pretty well understands how anxious she is and seems to try to reassure her with his love; his younger brother, the favorite, is only dimly aware of what's going on. The little sister, apparently the victim of these cedipal ties, grows chubbier and more confused every...
Shark's Fins & Joysticks. In appearance, the Navy's first SSN (Submarine Nuclear) will look much like an ordinary Tang-class sub (TIME, July 9), only bigger and chubbier. It will have the same streamlined gun-free deck, the same sharklike fin rising in the center to house its radar, periscope and snorkel (which is a convenience, not a necessity, on an atomic submarine). Inside, the SSN will open up an entirely new world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing...
After almost five months in Britain, Cinemactress Judy Garland arrived in Manhattan chubbier by several pounds. Said she: "Right now I'm overdoing this pleasingly plump business. But I don't care. I never felt better in my life. Special dieting to knock off the poundage in a hurry for a picture is really murder. That's what was wrong with me early this year when I had a nervous breakdown. And for that reason I certainly sympathize with people like Mario Lanza. This time I'm going to take diet and reducing much slower...