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...spicy turn, you plop into a hydrother-apeutic bath frothing with sesquicar-bonates, lithium chloride, magnesium sulfate, hexachlorophene-everything, presumably, but cyclamates. BELLY BUDGETING. More appetizing recipes are offered in the spa's dietetic dining room. There guests bend over their menus like accountants, busily subtracting a prune whip (40 calories) here and adding a rutabaga julienne (36) there. "Spoof champagne" is served from big icy bottles with popping corks. As your dinner companions chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that you are only sipping carbonated water with grape flavoring...
...addition, Harvard's unwieldy freshman program is unsuited to fit the needs of the massive numbers of Yardling candidates. Four coaches must handle over 125 boys, with only six games to play them in, and one squad to play them on. Harvard must either prune its recruiting, or enlarge its staff, form two teams, and play two full schedules...
Lawrence R. DiCara '71, prominent student politico, said, "The SFAC is like prune juice. Nobody wants it and it just gets...
...chuckles.) "How are you, darling? Are your knees bothering you? Well," he says, tugging down the hem of her skirt, "they sure are bothering me! [Guffaws.] I'll pick you up later, dear! [Louder guffaws.] Ah, everybody's in a good humor today! Did you have your prune juice this morning? [Laughter.] That's niice! By the way, while you're here in New York, we'll see to it that you are well taken . . . care of, that is! [Loud laughter.] Oooh, you're good! You're going to be all right...
Glorious Hours. Humorist Stan Freberg, a freelance commercial producer who created the Sunsweet prune and Jeno's pizza ads for TV, is pushing another possible cure. It is frankly Utopian. He calls it "The Freberg Part-Time Television Plan: A Startling but Perfectly Reasonable Proposal for the De-escalation of Television in a Free Society, Mass Media-wise." The plan calls for a week like this: Monday. Television as usual. Tuesday. The set goes black, but one word shines in the center of the screen: Read...