Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report said Masaryk had a habit of sitting in cold places to cure his insomnia. He also had a way, it said, of sitting cross-legged in yoga fashion. The "remarkable connection" of these two habits, it concluded, probably led to his death in "an unfortunate accident...
...Marcos would have won anyway. As a campaigner, he had the war record (27 medals in World War II), the necessary transportation (he used a squadron of Philippine air force planes) and the crowd-pleasing, youthful good looks (which he preserves with a largely vegetarian diet and frequent yoga exercises...
...children's book by Dutch Schoolmaster Kees Boeke ("You advance in and out through the universe," says the blurb, "changing scale by a factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers is The Survival Book by Nesbitt, Pond and Allen -"an excellent handbook for Air Force pilots downed in remote regions...
Throughout his imprisonment, his guards never spoke. They only stared at him or sang revolutionary songs and chanted slogans. In return, he gave them insulting nicknames-Pervert Jaw, Peking Man-composed rhymes about them and sang to himself. He was allowed a few books, including a manual of yoga, which, he says, "turned out to be my salvation." By last Christmas, he had become almost sanguine. On that day, he related, "I felt a quiet sort of joy. I put on my best suit, to the puzzlement of the guards, and I tried to make it special, though...
...only prod to physical activity is a swimming pool-unheated. Compare that with the kind of activity available at the Club Mediterranee's 650-guest "vacation village," 45 miles away at Agadir on the Atlantic. "You name it, we do it," says Manageress Marcelle Fayt. "Sailing, riding, tennis, yoga, judo, camel riding, Scrabble, swimming, sunning, pingpong, desert safaris, deep-sea fishing, drinking, eating, kissing and frugging." All in two weeks, for $240 a person, including round-trip air fare from Paris...