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Women came to running more slowly and shyly than men. They were even less accustomed than men to the pain of exercise. Breasts jounced and drew hoots from male motorists. The all-important running one-handed noseblow, a maneuver performed without Kleenex, was unladylike. When Judy Sanford, 33, a Houston housewife, began jogging a few years ago, she did it inside her house. She reckoned 73 laps to the mile, and says that she changed direction every ten laps to keep from getting dizzy. Now she runs three miles a day through the streets, wearing a headset radio to keep...
...told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed]." Our guides unabashedly confessed to listening to the Voice of America. They prefer country-and-western music and Hollywood show tunes...
Tuesday, January 11--The alarm rang early, but had I known that the french toast at breakfast would tear as easily as a wet kleenex, I would have stayed in the room and eaten my Scotties...
Those of us who drink and smoke couldn't be any worse off than that wretched soul surrounded by Kleenex boxes and paper toweling...
...used his thumbnail," said Margulis, "was that it did away with handling a screwdriver, which might have germs on it. Handling inanimate objects had developed into a complicated ritual. When you were going to bring him a spoon, for example, the spoon handle had to be wrapped in Kleenex and Scotch-taped. Then you would take another piece of Kleenex to hold the Kleenex wrapping, so the wrapping wouldn't get contaminated. He would lift the wrapped spoon off the piece of Kleenex you were holding it with...