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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew he could never make the kind of living he wanted for himself and Daphne working for someone else, "and we wanted to be our own boss," he says, so they borrowed enough to match their savings, bought their store, and taught themselves to keep the accounts. Leonard does all the purchasing and cooking, and Daphne provides the counter service and does the books, and says Leonard, "We do everything together. I make a decision and ask her and if she has a better decision I say okay, we do it. She's a whiz...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Capitalism, at Work | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

...could call himself Hercules. Despite his skinny arms and pathetic inability to lose weight over the course of two decades, Attanasio had always fancied himself a lifter of weights, had put in the hours in the cellar, yeah, pumping with the sump pump. His uncle and eponym, he knew, had once been on the cover of Muscle magazine. So let us follow Hercules as he travels with Arnold...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Yecch," said the woman beside him. Hercules knew several women who found Arnold's physique unappealing, who said they couldn't imagine sleeping with him. For his own reasons, Hercules couldn't imagine sleeping with him either, a diferent story and one, Hercules would hear, not altogether foreign to bodybuilding...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Arctic has a peculiar sense of justice. For every storm in the dead of winter, there is a calm; for every predator, a victim. For the six month day, there is the six month night. Syd Justin knew that, but it didn't stop his stomach from fluttering with anticipation when the small notice in the Edmonton Sun caught his attention...

Author: By Larry Grafstein, | Title: In the Arctic, You Are Not Alone | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...first half, Harvard did what it knew it had to do. Shoot. And not miss. The Crimson sank an awesome 63 per cent from the floor, while Texas conected only 42 per cent of the time...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Texas Tops Cagers At Boston Garden | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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