Word: lifter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attanasio wondered whether he 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...
Chandler has approached both work and play with that same drive to prove himself. A big-game hunter who says his sport has taken him to "all the high mountains of the world," Chandler is also a motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest...
...Harvard basketball team woke up in a strange position this morning. The hoopsters are perched on top of the Ivy's standings after their 59-44 win over Dartmouth in the league lid-lifter last night...
...front end of a Honda Civic or the 89-lb. woman who can run the Boston Marathon in 2:48:33, as 41-year-old Miki Gorman did this year? The zealots of the new fitness say, with rueful shakes of their heads, that if the weight lifter can't run a mile and three-quarters in twelve minutes (assuming he is under 30), he can't claim to be in excellent shape, and that if he can't trundle at least one mile in that time, his condition is poor...
...about to start preparing for the West Coast opening of Pumping Iron. But last week, having survived the headaches of the New York premiere, lie packed off with Weight Lifter Schwarzenegger and a few hefty friends for an early-morning dinner at Elaine's. When the meal was over, someone noticed that half the guests had ordered the same fare-mussels. Gasped Zarem in delight: "I didn't even plan...