Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Cure Column. First patient to get the benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess...
...Watching the show as a spectator, the U.S.'s Dick Button, five times a world champion himself, was awed by the Dutch girl. "Tremendous. She has the strength of a man. She is probably the most powerful woman skater who has ever existed." Packing a muscular 140 lbs. on her 5-ft. 6-in. frame, Sjoukje Dijkstra does not try to dazzle the judges with her femininity. She cuts the ice with her athletic ability and prim, peril feet routines. Other skaters warm up in buttons and bows, but Sjoukje wears a blue sweatsuit marked "Nederland...
...comes. For the entree he eats humble pie. And for dessert he eats crow. A tall, muscular, handsome young man arrives, greets him as the boy he obviously is, walks out with the girl on his arm. "Antoine," the girl's mother asks him gently, "shall we watch television?" In silence the boy turns his chair to face the music...
...local girls sank to second in the swimming events behind muscular Sargent. Margaret Earle took a second in the back stroke for the 'Cliffe while Lee Eyler, a freshman, earned a third in the diving competition...
...Games in New York, the Soviet Union's rubber-legged broad jumper, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, casually smashed Ralph Boston's old record with a prodigious leap of 26 ft. 10 in. The pole-vault record has been boosted five times by four different vaulters, the last a muscular Finn named Pentti Nikula, who soared an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in. How much faster, farther and higher can the athletes go? Lots, it seems...