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...into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added almost two inches to his chest. The Rancho del Cielo physical regimen-wood chopping, fence building and horseback riding-was familiar, but who knew about the cure-all mental effects? "There's something that clears your senses in the out of doors . . . It gives you the right attitude . . . [Riding provides] a different perspective on life itself. It is a tonic, really...
...current economic recovery, which has boosted revenues through increased income and retail sales, deserves considerable credit for the rosier outlook. Just as important, however, has been a spartan regimen of tax hikes and belt-tightening. Some 38 states imposed new levies or extended temporary tax hikes during 1982 and early 1983, measures that are expected to raise some $10 billion for fiscal 1984. Fully three-quarters of the states slashed spending below the levels they had originally appropriated during the past two years. The result of these austerity measures, says David Levine, an economist with the Bureau of Economic Analysis...
...races, it is one of the highlights of autumn. For amateur club rowers it is the end of their season, one last chance to race before the winter. For the Harvard and Radcliffe crews it is a race that fits in at a very early stage of their training regimen. For other intercollegiate crews, who often have been training longer, it may be their only chance of the year to challenge the Crimson. For old crew teams the race is a reunion of sorts, a chance to catch up and once again race as a team. For the oldtimers...
...worry though. He has scarcely settled into his uncomfortable regimen be fore he has bedded one of his therapists and received his first hints of the interna tional conspiracy that will preoccupy him for the rest of this loose-jointed remake of Thunderball. Once again, the scenario has something to do with the theft of nuclear warheads and their use as a blackmail weapon. The plot's mastermind is played with silky, neurotic charm by Klaus Maria Brandauer (so fine in Mephisto), while as his chief agent provocateur, Barbara Carrera deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered...
Though he shed the regimen of Orthodox life, he never lost his Jewish identity, and became an inexhaustible and intelligent philanthropist...