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...mile-a-week runner, I was delighted with your cover selection. After reading the story, however, I was a bit disillusioned. Thirty billion dollars for fitness? One of the joys of a conditioning program is that it is fun and cheap...
...boat hit a buoy at the start, one scraped a bridge on the way, while one steered clear of everything on the course, even the finish line. But in the end, the first boat finished third, closely tailing BU and Smith College throughout the two-and-a-half mile race...
...mile nine-nation journey, the seventh such tour sponsored by TIME in the past 18 years, was designed to give U.S. executives a journalist's view of the personalities and issues shaping events in two critical areas of the world. Making the trip, accompanied by 16 TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, were Robert Anderson, Chairman, Rockwell International Corp.; John R. Beckett, Chairman, Transamerica Corp.; James F. Beré, Chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F Brophy, Chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, Chairman, Ford Motor Co.; Albert V. Casey, Chairman, American Airlines Inc.; Richard P. Cooley, Chairman, Wells...
...Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
...weeks of rehearsal before every film, dozens of "takes," worn-out shoes, bleeding feet. Even now, as Astaire looks back on the Fred-and-Ginger films from the vantage point of his one-story marble palace in Beverly Hills, he likens the experience to "running the four-minute mile for six months. I'd lose 15 lbs. during rehearsal," he told TIME'S Martha Smilgis. "But then you'd get in a winning groove-a kind of show-business dream sequence where you can't do anything wrong. The choreography was a mutual effort: Hermes...