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...many, this may be wrong, reports Dr. Jean Mayer in Science. By a quirk of body chemistry, the brain's appetite-regulating centers can create the opposite effect - if you exercise enough, you may eat less and get thinner...
...Family Way. In England's North Country, a young couple spend their wedding night at his parents' place. The boy (Hywel Bennett) has a skin even thinner than the walls of the bedroom, and as his loutmouthed father (John Mills) fusses with a chamber pot next door, he finds himself unable to consummate the marriage. When their honeymoon plans fall through, the couple stay on in the house, and Bennett remains incapacitated. "One doesn't miss what one's never had," the bride (Hayley Mills) assures him. But a month later, she miserably confides her troubles...
Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...
Anderson's sight gag becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...
Moreover, while De Gaulle's foreign policy (including his snubbing of the U.S. and courting of the Communist bloc) is generally popular with the voters, the real issue this time is in the Frenchman's portefeuille. His pocketbook is noticeably thinner, in large part because De Gaulle has not done much recently for France's economy. Among Common Market countries, France trails all but Luxembourg in the growth of industrial production, while its cost of living (which rose 14% last year) is the highest in Europe. The unemployment rate, which for years was one of Europe...