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Cousy, looking as trim as in his playing days, admitted he occasionally gets the urge to play, but "basketball is not like golf, so I keep the urge in its proper perspective," he chuckled...
...Betty Glover, 43, adds class to the brass of the Cincinnati Symphony; Helen Taylor, 24, plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control necessary to control her contrary instrument, Winters swims and works out daily at a gym. "It leaves me almost no time for social life," she says. "I'd hate...
...balances within the government and the Cortes. "Every country," he said last week, "must work this out in its own way. With us, a genuine, orderly and effective democracy excludes political parties, but this in no way implies the exclusion of legitimate contrast of opinions." What Franco did was trim the power of his own politically potent Falange, which has long dominated the Spanish labor movement. He abolished the old laws banning strikes and requiring that only Falangistas hold top trade-union jobs...
...thing the Childs do watch relentlessly. Overweight is the occupational disease of cooks, and as Julia, who has slimmed down to 159 lbs. and still has three more to go, insists, "Calories do count. Why, even an apple is 70 calories." To keep trim, she and Paul exercise every morning, breakfast on fruit and tea, lunch on cold meat and salad. Even at dinner, their one big meal of the day, they limit themselves to just one helping. "People who have to diet and who also like French food," says Julia, "just have to eat less...
...Retail Merchants comes to the same conclusion. By last week all five major Manhattan department stores had their holiday toylands open for trade, and their Christmas boutiques were stuffed with wrappings, gifts, cards and decorations. Such cities as Portland, Ore., may still wait until the day after Thanksgiving to trim their streets, but Elmsford, N.Y., has its holiday wattage in place...