Word: strenuous
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Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin, the boys involved, write and edit a magazine of strenuous anti-U.S. protest but no visible proceeds called Fallout. The boys are intelligent fools and natural allies. Editor Perkins has the wiry agony of a tortured coat hanger. Benjamin, the writing half of the team, casts the glowless beam of an abandoned lighthouse...
...notion that at his time of life his body has to be preserved from any undue stress and strain. He may play 36 holes of golf and cards afterward, but at night, in bed with his wife, he is apt to feel that sex is too strenuous and depleting. He is more interested in preserving his body than his marriage"-although even the doctor would agree that a reasonable concern for the physical is vital to both the man and his marriage...
...Strenuous Climate. Kaplan's discovery was made possible by French Astronomers Pierre and Janine Connes, who developed new equipment at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence that enabled them to produce the most detailed spectrograms of Mars ever made. Originally intended to reveal data about atmospheric pressure at the Martian surface, the spectrograms were of such high quality that they revealed unexpected absorption lines which had been indistinguishable in spectrograms recorded by less sensitive instruments. After careful analysis, Kaplan concluded that many of the absorption lines could have been caused only by reflected sunlight passing through hydrogen compounds...
...planet: the apparent lack of water in liquid form. What little Martian water there is exists as polar-cap frost or vapor in the atmosphere; there are no oceans or even lakes similar to those in which the first terrestrial life evolved. "It would be a strenuous climate for life," says Kaplan, "but then not all life-even on earth-requires liquid water...
...however splendid the setting, the quality of the dining depends on the owners and chefs. Some of them are professional restaurant people. New York's La Cremaillere is run by Fred Deere and Robert Meyzen, who also own Manhattan's elegant La Caravelle. Albert Stockli quit his strenuous job as director of chefs for Manhattan's Restaurant Associates on his doctor's advice, moved to the country to take over Connecticut's Stonehenge...