Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some baseball pitchers are bad boys of winter: they come in low and inside with their typewriters and tell tales out of the clubhouse. Jim Bouton perfected the pitch with Ball Four, and as a sequel ex-Yankee Sparky Lyle this season spikes up dirt about the world champs in The Bronx Zoo. Then there's Philadelphia Phillies Reliefer Tug McGraw, 34. When his arm is in the whirlpool, McGraw's mind is busy thinking up baseball fairy tales for children. He is working on one about a boy from the Bowery and his dog who both make...
...gifts seemed evident enough. He did not begin talking until age two, but then he spoke in com plete sentences. He was soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance to the school...
Tarnower's formula is merely the latest variation on the familiar high protein-low carbohydrate regimen. Although food quantities are not specified, the doctor believes that most Scarsdale dieters average 1,000 or fewer calories a day. Many naturally complain of lassitude and find that their weight loss is only temporary. But others, like Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who lost 40 Ibs. on two two-week stints, are more than satisfied. The diet, he says, is "a thing of beauty." It is also, unquestionably, the diet of the hour. Some socialites with no weight problems...
...business school route, the numbers of students choosing to become doctors and lawyers and such have not changed much--but the intensity with which they pursue their goals has. Starting in 1972, the percentage of graduating seniors planning to go on to careers in business climbed from a low of 6 per cent to a high of 15 per cent in 1976, as the corporate world lost some of the repugnance to students that it had during the war. Likewise, the percentage planning careers in government and politics climbed from 2 per cent in 1972 to 7 per cent last...
Paul Templeton, who rows in the bow seat, said yesterday, "We had heard they were quick starters, but they were really low. They were at 32 (strokes per minute) and we were doing about...