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Dieters ate their desserts with a little less guilt last week. Thanks to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., women who are 5 ft. 2 in. and tip the scales at 140 could consider their weights to be right on target, as could 180-lb. men who measure 5 ft. 10 in. For the first time since 1959, the giant insurance company revised its widely used height-weight guidelines, moving them upward by as much as ten to 15 lbs. in the case of short men and women. The news brought sighs of relief from gourmands but cries of alarm from...
Since joining the Harvard men's team. Saravay has lowered his time in the mile to 7.21. He has competed in the Dartmouth Relays, the Northeastern Athletic Congress at Boston University, the Metropolitan Athletic Conference and the Greater Boston Track Invitational, and he is currently gearing up for the Outdoor Track and Field Junior National Championships, to be held in July at Niagara Falls...
Your review of "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" [Feb. 14] is a disturbing testament to the insensitivity and isolation of art critics. Exhibitions like the one now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give people who cannot afford a trip to Rome, London or Paris an opportunity to see great works...
...pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance. The right wing contends that the guerrillas have distorted Romero's nonviolent, nonpartisan social views, and fears that the Pope's action will be used by the insurgents as an endorsement of their cause. Ironically, the Pope may be greeted when...
...making it impossible to achieve racial balance in the classrooms. The St. Louis school board charged that the transfer and consolidation policies of suburban St. Louis County schools, 80% of whose students were white, had helped reinforce city segregation patterns. Federal Court Judge William Hungate threatened to impose mandatory metropolitan busing unless suitable voluntary arrangements were made. Last week, after eight days and 60 hours of intense negotiations, 22 out of 23 county school districts agreed to a unique voluntary desegregation program that will bus about 15,000 black students from city to suburban schools. Says James DeClue, president...