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More and more Soviets are heeding such warnings these days, as a new concern about health and fitness sweeps the country. Dozens of state-run and private aerobics centers have cropped up in large cities. A television station in Moscow runs a 15-min. program called Morning Gymnastics at 8 daily, and another show, Aerobics, appears several afternoons each week. Popular journals are carrying more articles about controlling that well-known artery clogger kholesterine. Perhaps not coincidentally, the slim, fashionable Raisa Gorbachev, who travels regularly with her husband, is projecting a new image for the Soviet woman...
...taxi pulled away from the Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards...
WCAU, usually a quality station, has stooped to the lowest levels by giving Rizzo access to the airwaves. While talk radio is quickly becoming a legitimate and potent political force, Rizzo's tough talk and thinly disguised bigotry adds nearly nothing to the city's political dialogue. The little it does add convincingly demonstrates why Rizzo lost the election to Goode, who was widely perceived as ineffective and incompetent...
...course, even though Rizzo is a demagogic liberal basher, he deserves his freedom of speech. And WCAU, as a business, can do whatever it wants to bring the station what recently hired station manager Gregory Tantum termed a needed "higher profile...
Many of the same complaints still exist. Community residents still criticize Harvard's role in the real estate and development markets. For example, Harvard's proposed hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station has ignited once again the charge that the University is ignoring community concerns...