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...shrewd Texas blonde named Debbie Drake has fashioned a never-fail device to pare tallow off overweight Americans, using three proven methods: 1) exercise, 2) diet, and 3) matrimonial strife. The device is leggy, busty, 30-year-old Debbie Drake (38½-22½-36) herself. She does calisthenics. Loyal women viewers of 58 TV stations drag themselves out of bed early enough (7:30 a.m., E.D.T.) to puff along with Debbie as she does 15 minutes of sinuous stretches and stupefying deep breathing. While the women writhe, their husbands too are profiting by the sitting-up exercises (they...
Despite the tone of somber realism in his campaign speeches and his inaugural address, President Kennedy came into office cherishing some naive notions about the possibilities of easing cold-war tensions through rational negotiation-and about the extent to which the shrewd tactics that had carried him so far in U.S. politics would serve him in trying to cope with Communism. "Let us never negotiate out of fear," Kennedy said in his inaugural address, "but let us never fear to negotiate." But what had sabotaged negotiations during the Eisenhower Administration was not fear of negotiation; it was the Communists...
...winning the primary, Mitchell upset shrewd, tough Walter H. Jones, Republican leader of the state senate and the favorite of a fusty state Republican organization that has all but wrecked the once-powerful G.O.P. in New Jersey. In the last seven years, Jersey Republicans have watched haplessly while the rising Democratic tide elected Harrison ("Pete") Williams to the U.S. Senate in 1958, won control of the state assembly, put Robert Meyner in the Governor's mansion for two terms (the state constitution forbids him to run for a third), and gave New Jersey to John Kennedy last November...
...soul of the Middle Ages," and "the Rockefeller of Spain." None of these titles quite fits the fantastic career and character of Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, a stooped, eagle-beaked Spaniard who in his ninth decade is perhaps the world's most mysterious and powerful billionaire. Shrewd and ruthless, the shadowy figure of Juan March has floated across the face of Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from the law. With characteristic foresight, March bankrolled Dictator Francisco...
...owners get around this situation by claiming that the red tape applies only to cabs that "ply for hire" on the streets. They insist they answer only calls that are phoned to the main office and then radioed to a parked or cruising minicab that makes the pickup. One shrewd owner, an Irish-Indian go-getter named Michael Gotla, will allow his mini cabs to be flagged down by passengers; the driver will then hand his car phone to the customer and ask him to place his order with the dispatcher at headquarters, who will solemnly repeat...