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Most of the million visitors who crowd into Ocean City, Md., each summer go there to rest, and for them miniature golf counts as a strenuous sport. But Ocean City also lures a hardier type: the sport fisherman. Hotel phone operators spot him easily: he is the fel low who asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat...
While the railroads were prospering, management put up with the extra costs imposed by work rules. But by 1956, beset by shrinking profits, the railroads told the unions that the time had come to start revising the rules. After strenuous negotiations, the two sides agreed to shelve the issue for three years. When the three years expired in 1959, the railroads set out to alter the work rules. Featherbedding, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is "a handmaiden of the ruinous inflationary spiral. For the good of all America, something drastic must be done about...
...guidance of Dr. Hans Kraus, a Vienna-trained New York physician who thinks that much back trouble is related to muscular weakness.* On his recent trip to Europe, Kennedy noted how greatly his back had improved in the course of those two years. He endured the jostling and the strenuous pace without noticing any pains, and upon his return he exultantly told friends that his back was no longer troubling him. With Dr. Kraus's O.K., he decided to take up golf again. Last week at Hyannis Port, he got out on the course again and swung away...
...issued a strenuous attack on what he called "radical right" elements in the Republican Party. While he avoided calling Barry Goldwater any names, or even naming him, Republican politicians across the nation interpreted the blast as an attempt to slow down the front runner. In a broader view, Rockefeller's move marked the onset of the Republican Party's traditional election-year struggle between its liberal and conservative wings...
...paper in a libel suit, she finally quit. Turning to other adventure she hunted in Asia, fly-fished in Norway, piloted her own plane around Europe. Twice divorced from husbands of her father's choice, Alicia married Copper Fortune Heir Harry Guggenheim over Captain Joe's strenuous objections...