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Chernenko, frail and thinner, is back, while a top soldier...
Chernenko looked tan and thinner, suggesting that he might have really been on a summer vacation, as Soviet officials had claimed. He read a brief address with the same faint and gasping voice as before his absence. But the 72-year-old Soviet leader appeared to have grown more frail. Rather than pinning on the decorations, he simply presented boxed medals to the cosmonauts...
...make love to her because he loves her too much. They become crazy from this." Eventually, Maria is forced to seek other suitors, played by Robert Mitchum, 67, and Keith Carradine, 35. They have better luck, but little staying power. Soviet Director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky concludes, "Nastassja is very frail, yet very strong...
...Leonid Brezhnev during his summer vacations. Chernenko also passed up the opening ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, Moscow's answer to the Los Angeles Olympics, letting Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev preside in his place. None of this proved that Chernenko's health, already frail, has deteriorated. But suspicious Soviets were quick to draw parallels with the late Yuri Andropov, who went on vacation last August and did not reappear in public before his death nearly six months later...
...antipodeans, was the dominant swimmer of the meet. He is a very tall, haunted-looking fellow whose nickname is the Albatross, and he soared above everyone else on air currents only he was able to find. He is 6 ft. 7½ in. tall and so thin he looks frail. His arm span, which on average should equal roughly his height, is an astonishing 7 ft. 4 in. He is the only male swimmer since Mark Spitz to hold world records in two strokes at the same time, and the combination of his success and his unusual architecture has swimming...