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...Painless & Terrible. His story begins on the night of Jan. 8, 1960, when Hodgins was alone in his apartment. One moment he was dictating a telegram on the telephone; then suddenly all he could say was "ab, ab," over and over. As the receiver slid from his paralyzed left hand, he felt no pain, no dizziness. But he knew that something terrible had happened. Later, in a $108-a-day Manhattan hospital room (the price included three nurses at $20 each), he found out how badly...
...heartening to note that Harvard and the Metropolitan District Commission have joined forces to honor the appointment of Stan Musial as the President's Physical Fitness Adviser by providing flabby undergraduates with a painless way to exercise. In a secret agreement, signed no doubt in the new tennis courts, Harvard and the MDC agreed to retain the path to the Business School parking lot as a mecca of winter sports...
...looked as though he would be in town for quite a while, and so Jimmy Hoffa, 50, decided to throw the old weight around. Working out with bar bells in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Y.M.C.A., he started with relatively short, painless sessions. That, explained Instructor Bill Floyd, was because the hardheaded teamster boss was going a little soft in the gut. Hoffa will need all the exercise he can get. He's in Chattanooga for a federal trial (his fifth) on jury-tampering charges stemming from his fourth court appearance, and it promises to be a lively one. His attorneys...
...weight. Far from it, Dr. Drenick's team now reports in the A.M.A. Journal. True enough, the drastic regimen takes off weight; the eight other men in the experiment lost 18 to 63 Ibs. after twelve to 52 days of fasting. And it is remarkably painless. The most astounding thing, say the doctors, is that after the first two to four days, none of the test subjects felt any hunger pangs -in sharp contrast to the gnawing hunger of people on low-calorie diets...
...past five months, he has been operating boss of a $45 million budget and overseer of some 8,400 students and 2,000 faculty. Brewster has made few mistakes. No one doubts that the official transition from No. 2 to No. 1 will be equally smooth and painless...