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Elaine: Get out! Yoo-hoo! Rowboat man! Come on, row through the dead--this man wants to throw me overboard...
...Jack LaLanne. His California health spa (started in 1936) was the country's first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2 miles from Alcatraz to San Francisco's shore, towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. He still maintains a rugged regimen; up at 5 every morning, he works out an hour with weights before swimming for another hour. "My conscience is terrific," he says. "If I missed a workout, it would just kill me." For those wavering about...
...American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour-a-day rowboat restoration projects proceed best when the world whispers in my boatshop...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement "To be great is to be misunderstood" was made for Dole. For that reason, it was nice to read your balanced report about him. After studying Dole for years, I'm ready to follow the man across the Pacific in a leaky rowboat. JAKE M. COLLINS Rochester, New Hampshire...
...their father's role in this matter" -- whatever that meant. John Warner of Virginia worried about the hardship Kelso's wife would bear if he were to get $17,000 a year less. Sam Nunn got tangled up in sailing analogies -- Kelso's opponents were putting him in a rowboat and tying an anchor to his leg and saying he "should have been down on the bottom of the ship" -- and concluded that the Senate should not take two stars away from Kelso because it "would set a different standard." But that was exactly what Kelso's opponents were hoping...