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...much can be done to boost an athlete's performance that some are tempted to do too much. It is one thing for a swimmer to shave all the hair off his body to make an infinitesimal change in the resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
...STEEL. To prevent steel from being dropped from the Round altogether, Britain agreed to shave its regular tariff from 11% to 8% and to trim 20% from its fixed duty of $12.60 a ton on certain steels. With that, the EEC sliced its steel levy from 9% to 5.7%, opening the way for a general world alignment of steel tariffs at around...
...partner in 1952 when, on behalf of a client, Attorney Arkoff threatened suit for title infringement. Impressed with each other's skill at infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature simultaneously in every available theater in a locality, then moving on before any damaging...
...amateur tennis, the staid, 86-year-old United States Lawn Tennis Association signed a promotional deal with Manhattan's Licensing Corp. of America, a six-year-old merchandising whiz-bang best known for following up fads with floods of such items as 007 trench coats and after-shave lotion, Batman T shirts, Batpuppets and Batguns...
Anderson's sight gag becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...