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...Habit. That victory could hardly have been achieved by the enfeebled sort of fellow that Ike was still pictured, in some circles, as being. In fact, allowing for the natural increment of years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn...
Trouble is that when the big bolt strikes, the plasma writhes and twists, often breaks out of the magnetic field and dissipates its heat into the walls of whatever sort of outer container is being used...
...teenage, 5-ft. 2-in. "dwarf" of this book first saw hard covers years ago in Shulman's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. A sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie...
...gone off to a state university, where a coed named Chloe ("what a great heart beat beneath that flat chest") mercifully ends the story by marrying him. All of which is one more example of what readers have known since Barefoot Boy with Cheek: Humorist Max Shulman is a sort of Seventh Avenue A. A. Milne. He has a corner on pooh...
That a substantial number of Negro physicians, especially the younger ones, want this sort of thing was clear. A few years ago N.M.A. conventions were largely social, did not get rolling before 10 a.m.. ana only 20% of the attendance represented young doctors (out of medical school ten years or less). Last week there was an S.R.O. crowd for the steroids meeting at 8 a.m., and half the registration was of ten-year (and under) doctors...