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...electrocardiograph. Then an exercise regime is set. The beginning pace may be a walk or a slow jog, with frequent pulse checks. Conditioning is slower than with healthy joggers, but the results can be startling. Ten of Nequin's patients, one of them a 47-year-old merchant who survived a triple bypass operation, were planning to run in a ten-mile race along the lakefront...
Costakis, nearing his 65th birthday in July, is the son of a Greek tobacco merchant who moved to Moscow before the revolution. He started his collection in 1948 by buying antique Russian silver and paintings by conventional artists. He soon tired of that and shifted to the avantgarde. He had very little money. Even today he earns no more than $8,500 a year as an administrative officer in charge of Russian employees at Moscow's Canadian Embassy. But in the beginning, he recalls, "this kind of art -including Chagall and Kandinsky -was selling at a very low price...
...news of Mrs. Gandhi's defeat was received with astonishment and euphoria. "What is happening?" shouted Janata supporters outside a counting station in New Delhi. When told that their candidates were winning decisively, the spectators hugged the messengers of the good news. Said Om Prakash, 26, a cloth merchant: "The election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon...
Police in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, were appalled last week when a live telecast showed Gunman Cory Moore where sharpshooters were stationed as he held Police Captain Leo Keglovic hostage. "They knew Cory had a TV," fumed Police Chief Craig Merchant. When Cory saw the broadcast he shouted into a telephone: "Everything's off right now!" Cory later surrendered after getting a promise that President Carter would telephone him. In a Chicago incident, a TV helicopter circled a hostage site, nearly frightening the gunmen (who mistook it for a possible police assault) into a violent reaction. Such moves enrage authorities...
...from the Chairman, who was notably reticent about her. Ho Tzu-chen, Chiang Ch'ing was made to realize, was a stubborn woman who "never came to understand the political world of Chairman Mao." Her problems were linked in part to her family background; birth into the landlord-merchant class had accustomed her to fairly high living standards. When cities were taken during the Long March, Ho announced that she wanted to quit the March and settle down there because she was used to living in cities...