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...this reason, many doctors eschew eccentric diets and insist that their patients learn instead to eat differently for the rest of their lives. Dr. Robert Atkins, a modishly dressed Manhattan physician who operates out of a plush East Side office, believes that overweight is the result of the body's inability to metabolize carbohydrates properly. He allows his patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise, heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations...
...nucleus of policy-making, and thus power, will exhibit neglible movement. For it already resides quite securely not in the White House or the Defense Department but in plush D.C. law offices overlooking 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Within these offices there exists a special brand of lawyers who practice a little-known but powerfully used manipulative art, one that twists much of the Federal establishment into a privately controlled institution...
...curious factor in Marcos' dream of a "new society" is its puritanical streak. Brigadier General Fidel Ramos, commandant of the Philippine constabulary, said recently that his men had closed 124 gambling casinos, 24 of which had been operating openly on plush Roxas Boulevard before martial law was declared. "I hope, gentlemen," Ramos declared, "that I have not unduly interfered with your social life." Marcos has also banned the bombas, pornographic films with titles like Climax of Love and Naked in the Dark. Strangely, the Manila censor also closed down Nicholas and Alexandra...
NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL students etched the latest returns on a huge, white bulletin board Robert F. Drinan-25,566 votes; Martin A. Kinsky-21,406: John I Collins-1743. A small roar went up from the 600 Drinan supporters who had gathered in the Tiara Room of the plush Sidney Hill Country Club in Newton. Their enthusiasm was short-lived. The middle-aged liberals from Brookline soon returned to the bar for more screwdrivers: the young volunteers from Wellesley, Harvard, Radcliffe, and Newton High School gathered in small circles and finished their Budweisers, while the members of the rock band...
...reception was held on the second floor of the Pound Building in a spacious room covered by a plush, orange wall-to-wall carpet. Bowls of pretzels, potato chips and shrimp lined every table. Directly in front of the door was a make-shift bar manned by two students who graciously mixed drinks for all comers. The majority of Law School students sat together in small circles, sipping gin and tonics and delicately chewing shrimp. In the corner of the room, just behind the bar, stood the New Crusader, surrounded by two of his attorneys, several reporters and a couple...