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...story bears a vague, uncomfortable resemblance to Odets' own, and though no names are named, a lot of famous ears are already tingling. The hero (Jack Palance) is a prominent movie star with a career "out of the storybooks" and a bracing regimen of "health, hard work, rare roast beef and good scripts," but somehow he cannot content himself with life among the movie idles. The trouble is that he once had "idealism"-a quality that seems to have involved, as far as Odets is concerned, being out of a job and bitter about it-but he sold...
...vacation: Ike had taken it easy, fishing in the chilly water of St. Louis Creek, dabbling at his painting, and demonstrating his prowess as a mess sergeant by preparing all the meals for the stag party. He put the camp on a two-big-meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold at night (12° above zero one night). More than a trace...
...between famed, four-times-married Artist Diego Rivera, 68, and sultry, four-times-married Cinemactress Maria Felix, 37, flared fitfully. Recently, when Maria returned by plane to Mexico from Havana, she was clutched in a passionate deathlock by the panting master, was whisked through Lover Rivera's standard regimen of courtship: a daily bouquet of red roses, frenzied cha-cha-cha dancing in flossy nightclubs, morning excursions to the lady's balcony with laired serenaders. But one day last week Diego Rivera landed in a hospital. Mexico City editors began readying obituaries, but as suddenly...
...General Douglas MacArthur's financial troubleshooter, Joe Dodge saved Japan from runaway inflation by imposing a regimen of austerity. He combed the national budget, once caught Japanese officials charging geisha girls to "miscellaneous" on their expense accounts. Dodge gave Japan its first balanced budget in 19 years. For his work of stabilizing the Japanese yen, his most valued plaudit came from a Japanese Cabinet minister, who reported: "The thieves are now stealing money instead of goods...
...Many overweight patients who have tried reducing routines without success can be helped if unobtrusiveness is added to the prescription, reports Philadelphia's Dr. Jacob J. Cohen in GP. They are told not to tell their friends about the regimen until results are obvious; they are allowed small sodas or short beers, and any drugs prescribed are taken at home before breakfast...