Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schwarzenegger has been cashing in on his limited fame for the past two years, trying to turn a bizarre physique into a lucrative business. Already he has had several movie parts, opened a mail order business for bodybuilding supplies, and set up a regular series of seminars for others equally eager "to sculpt their bodies." Soon he will be a guest commentator on ABC's Wide World of Sports. To play things safe, as Schwarzenegger says, he does a little real estate biz on the side...
...charmer, who also lives on the second floor, and hence prompted me to coin the silly disco-oriented joke, "Heather on the second floor," when I called her asking to talk to (Being Witheld). (Being Witheld) is my only correspondent since a Somerville woman threatened several years ago to mail me her body one appendage at a time until I stopped writing this column...
...indeed, they welcome it. Much of the political right sees in the Panama Canal the ideal issue to rally the troops, gain recruits and make a political comeback. Conservative-financed literature is popping up everywhere, and members of Congress concede they are influenced by the torrent of anti-treaty mail because there is so little on the other side; The treaty, like many worthy foreign policy enterprises, lacks an organized constituency. Nevertheless, the canal issue is fraught with risk for conservatives. If the treaty is ratified, they are losers; if it is rejected and the canal is disrupted by violence...
...America on the intricacies of the treaty. Further, the White House's handling of Congress was not as adroit as it might have been. Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan complained of the Senate: "Some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Senator Clifford Case, a New Jersey Republican who is sympathetic toward the treaty, coldly replied that such a remark was not ''helpful...
...supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority, and he never outgrew a compulsive need to steal from family, friends and acquaintances. Once as the dinner guest of a psychiatrist...