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...always been rather meaningless. Though shipment of tanks and certain other big items has remained suspended, the U.S. sold the Greeks a few jet fighters and trainers in 1968 and has maintained the low of trucks and small arms-precisely what the regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece's 15-to 20-year...
...secret: an array of tiny retractable blades jutting out from the club's metal face and imbedded in a soft elastic material (see diagram). Whenever the club made contact with the ball, some of the blades would retract, forming a small, temporary pocket. The pocket, in effect, would grip the ball and reduce its tendency to spin-regardless of the angle at which the golfer whacked...
Given the conditions, it is not surprising that Government work attracts more timeservers than ambitious gogetters. Yet the need for imaginative and energetic federal employees has never been greater. Though Congress remains reluctant to release its grip on civil servants, the present arrangements are likely to increase further the Government's difficulties as an employer...
...etiquette lessons. Under Gordy's tutelage, the Supremes, as they called themselves, turned into the most immaculately coiffured, intricately turned-out trio since the McGuire Sisters. And they were ever so poised. The girls were taught how to sit properly, how to shake hands ("The firmness of the grip," says Diana, "is very important"), and how to climb up on a piano. When they started going out on concert tours, they went with a chaperone. "There has never been an ounce of scandal connected with the Supremes," boasts a Motown executive. "No talk about drugs or anything...
...muscles invariably raises blood pressure, Lind says, and the rise may be dramatic if the muscles are strained to half their maximum tension. He points out that the size of the muscles involved is of little importance: a 30% contraction of the small forearm muscles in a hand grip will have the same effect on the blood pressure as a 30% contraction of the much larger leg muscles exerting 31 times as much force...