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...issues), has had a heady time in its first year. It has shot from a claimed circulation of 25,000 to 300,000 in its current issue. Its 20 youthful staffers-many of them refugees from straight publications like Good Housekeeping-work out of a large loft in Manhattan. Editorially, High Times has so far ranged all the way from the bizarre to the benumbed. One early issue ran a far-out, unverified, unsigned account of President John Kennedy "turning on" to alleviate his back troubles ("I Was Kennedy's Dealer"). Later issues have come down to more clear...
...course records in the U.S. and holds three engineering degrees from Stanford. Rogers, 67, never did well in tournaments because "I got so nervous I'd throw up"; high-stakes private matches are more his thing. His Shamrock clubs, he says, are going to give golfers the loft that has been missing from their long irons. "I've finally developed the club I've dreamed about since Bob Jones gave me my first...
Bend and Stretch. The Manhattan telephone directory lists 27 yoga instruction centers. One of the most attractive yoga studios is a converted loft organized by Dick Shea, 35, a sometime naval frogman, demolition expert and dancer, and Alan Levy, also 35 and a licensed chiropractor. Patrons come in for an average half-hour twice a week, to bend and stretch, arch their backs, swing their pelvises and breathe deeply, all at their own speed. They find that unlike conventional calisthenics, which tend to be exhausting, yoga renews their energy...
...elegant stained-glass front window, vaulted, beamed ceilings and a crafted Gothic interior. Though it might seem odd to some that Christians should go to a church for sole rather than soul, the Abbey has been serving capacity crowds. Most favored of its five dining areas: the choir loft, where monk-robed waiters Handel their guests with priestly concern...
Trial Balloon. It is a measure of the hopelessness of his position in the House that Nixon mulled the idea over and directed speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to loft it as a trial balloon at a breakfast with newsmen. Buchanan obliged, but within hours both the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House made it clear that they would not permit the constitutional proceedings to be short-circuited. Before the end of the day, Buchanan punctured the proposal for good. "The only real advantage was to Republican members of the House," he said, "but they're going to have...