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...began his new regimen by quitting the booze. For the first three months, he and his personal trainer weighed and recorded every bite and sip he took. "I was scared to eat chocolate cake and thick steak, afraid my blood would rot," Remar remembers. He also went overboard on his exercise program. In addition to weight lifting, biking and jogging, there was a backyard aerobics class that friends were inveigled into joining. He was so intense that he promptly injured his right shoulder...
...maze of inner compartments, which were quickly filling with ice-cold sea water. A flotilla of small boats soon surrounded the upended ship, and seamen searched for passengers who had been hurled into the water from open upper decks. Susan Hames of Coventry, who was pitched overboard, said a little girl was in the water with her. The terrified youngster cried, "I'm going to die, and I've been ever such a good girl. I've never told any lies." The girl survived...
Mayor Walter Sullivan, who smokes and voted against the ordinance said, "Harvard is enforcing it really. They went overboard in my estimation...
...President seems to have maintained his resolve against firing any more of his aides. "Reagan is about as rigid as I've ever seen him," says a longtime ally outside the Administration. "He doesn't want to throw anyone overboard to satisfy Washington's considered wisdom. He thinks that he is being well served by his present staff." Chief of Staff Donald Regan apparently feels his job is once again secure. Several aides say the haunted, hunted demeanor that Regan displayed in the early days of the controversy receded after a Dec. 11 meeting with the President. Regan "hasn...
...does he have troubles. Swept out of his family bosom and overboard from the ship carrying them to the New World by an Atlantic storm, Fievel bobs into New York harbor in a bottle. Quickly he discovers that American streets are not paved with cheese and that whoever said the golden land was free of cats was, well, exaggerating. Not to worry, though. Fievel (whose voice is supplied by eight-year-old Actor Phillip Glasser) is fully as brave and resourceful as any homogenized Disney rodent. And he is capable of exposing his most vulnerable feelings as few animated critters...