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...says the training program at first was "awful"--tense and physically demanding--but the 28 men in training with her had trouble too. At 5-ft., 5-in., she was the smallest but not the lightest member of the program, and Pastreich adds, "I would love to be 20 pounds heavier...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Firehouse's 1st Woman Feels at Ease | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

...Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading theorist on TV's influence, calls it "interesting but flawed." Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National Opinion Research Center by basing his conclusions primarily on data about the heaviest and lightest viewers, who compose only 6% of those polled. Gerbner says that Hirsch is just "nibbling around the edges to discredit what is an ongoing study in the field." Perhaps the only firm conclusion possible now is that TV can indeed foster alienation, at least among social scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Video Venom | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galena crystal detector mounted on a necktie stickpin and had four connections, for antenna, ground and headphones...

Author: By Martin Clifford, | Title: IN BOTH EARS | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...temporary arena specially built in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ali retreated to his training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains to whittle away the excess pounds. More than two months of arduous workouts reduced him to fighting trim; he weighed in at 217% Ibs., the lightest he has been since 1974, when he won the title for the second time from George Foreman in Zaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Requiem for a Heavyweight | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...There were no problems yesterday--a little garbage in the streets, but Friday is the lightest collection day anyway," Healy said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: State Tells Workers To End City Strike | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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