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Participants in such programs tend to talk about running with a special fervor, and so do their doctors. "Man was made a two-legged animal because he was meant to use his legs," says Dr. J.V. Shivde, one of Dr. Nequin's assistants. "We don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ready, Set ...Sweat! | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

The encounter starts benignly as Alice reads a newspaper to her six-legged acquaintance. But the double-entendres soon begin. Whenever Alice encounters a creature, the reader can hear a pun drop. The wasp, for example, mistakes Alice for a bee because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alice and the Wasp Lost and Found | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

The problem began as workers were performing maintenance operations on a well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ordeal by Oil | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

The ringmaster rose early, put on a yellow turtleneck shirt and made his one-legged way to Comiskey Park, which weathers gracefully on the South Side of Chicago, like the ringmaster himself. It was clear and warm and sunlit, a morning for the gods, but Bill Veeck's team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Bill Veeck: The Happy Hustler | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

A long-legged Tiger managed to win the long and triple jumps in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid embarrassment for his team.

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Upset Tigers | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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