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There is evidence to support such optimism. Studies have shown that running-indeed, all strenuous exercise-can elevate the blood levels of a form of cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein (HDL). This substance helps remove other, more harmful types of cholesterol from the body and presumably reduces the chances of such materials building up in the arteries. Studying 218 marathoners, joggers and nonrunners, G. Harley Hartung of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that the marathoners had the highest level of HDL. Other factors may be at work; marathoners tend to be relaxed, eat healthful foods, not smoke...
...working hard enough. But then came the crisis in Iran, and the President had to depend on his Vice President for much of the hard slogging of the primary campaigning. Now back in the good graces of Carter's inner circle, Mondale is looking forward eagerly to a strenuous regimen of four-day-a-week campaign swings, making slashing attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close...
...puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls! He's a bull out there...
...nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long now, scenting danger like some jungle animal. . ." Yet if it is impossible to believe any of this, it is hard not to enjoy it. And reading Solo is less strenuous than watching seagulls. A lot of seagulls...
Thursday's market upheavals aside, investors, worried that inflation is jeopardizing all values, have bid down stock prices at a strenuous pace for the past two months. Despite a late rally that carried the average up 55 points from its Thursday low to its Friday high, the Dow index still lost 7 points for the week as a whole, closing at 778. That was down 14% from the Feb. 13 high of 904, one of the fastest drops in stock market history. The Dow average, composed of 30 blue-chip issues, understates the case; prices of less seasoned shares...