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...ailing President, said Martin, would not need to put on a strenuous campaign if he decides to run again. "He's so popular he can win by a landslide without any strain. All he needs to do is to appear on television two or three times." Martin did not believe that another four years in office might be too taxing for Ike. "I can see how it would be less strain in the White House," he said, "than it would be on the farm at Gettysburg." Life on a farm, he explained, holds many temptations to exertion, while...
...past, Joan's Joie de vivre often seemed obscured by a depressing exploitation of her thwarted ambition. Except for a short interval between the signing and subsequent renunciation of her confession, the audience is now spared this tedium. Joan's American flavor has been achieved through a strenuous effort to forget the Frenchidiom. By not attempting to imitate the French manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position...
Last week, after spending a strenuous six days with Joe at his farm, George was back home again, visiting with his parents and writing his research for this week's story. "The farm is still home," he wrote me. "And along the creek is a good place to walk and think...
...form. In many cases of lesser severity, the period of complete bed rest is about three weeks, followed by convalescence of two or three months; in more serious cases, convalescence lasts six months or more. Doctors' long-term advice to most recovered coronary patients includes regular-but not strenuous-exercise, abstinence from tobacco, dieting against excess weight, and, insofar as it is possible, freedom from emotional tension. Under modern medical care, 80% of all coronary thrombosis cases survive their first attack, and many of them live long afterward...
Hammarskjold's relaxations were even more strenuous. Weekends, Hammarskjold would often disappear to climb a mountain, alone. "On vacations." says his brother Sten, "he still puts on an open-neck shirt and shorts, and with his hair streaming in the wind, pedals his bicycle furiously along the roads of Sweden." On one occasion, Hammarskjold cycled to a town in the south of Sweden and asked for a hotel room. The clerk examined the sweaty, youthful figure in shorts, with rucksack, and told him to try the youth hostel. The chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden...