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...contrast to 40% for men. Dr. Jack Wilmore, president of the American College of Sports Medicine, has found that women, because they have low levels of the androgenic hormones that enlarge muscles, can increase their strength 50% to 75% with no increase in muscle bulk. Witness Virginia Wade, sleek and slender, who can serve a tennis ball at 92 m.p.h...
Even for placard-prone California, the spontaneous sprouting of signs for and against 13 has been sensational. Thousands of homeowners display the size of their tax increases in their front yards. Bumper stickers have blossomed on battered Bugs and sleek Mercedes alike. Assessors' offices have been besieged by taxpayers anxious-and afraid-to learn how hard they will...
...Marine I served aboard a five-ship convoy stationed in the Mediterranean during 1976. Our ships were rusty, overworked and in general need of a good overhaul. The Russian ships we encountered were sleek, efficient and menacing looking compared with ours. I was impressed by the Russians, and at the same time I feared for the navy that had to tangle with them. Let's get our Navy back in shape so there will be no question as to who is No. 1 in seapower...
...appearance in Washington of sleek limousines rolling away from the city's Madison Hotel to carry Saudi Arabian princes and high officials to meetings with Senators had an impact. American-educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong...
...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...