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...feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst into a tank of water. To break Houdini's record, he must escape within two minutes. If he wants to continue his TV career, he'll have just a bit more time. Says Doug: "I can only hold my breath for 2½ minutes...
...FITNESS AS TO CRAFT, HEALTH AND LIFE. Breath control is essential. I tried to persuade old Charles Laughton of that when he told me he was going to do Lear. He asked if I could give him any advice. I said, "Yes, I can, you fat, old s.o.b. [pronounced sob]. You have a large estate in Norfolk. I've seen it, not that you ever invited me to it, dear boy. I was catty. You have a large estate with an extensive hillside. Every morning I want you to climb that hillside, and shout out the lines." Well...
...student pilot flying a Piper Cub, Correspondent David Lee recalls, he was always "scaring the breath out of my instructor" and landing in "hop-it-in" style. Recently Lee, who covered the Apollo program for TIME, was back in Houston at the controls of NASA'S new, "reusable" spaceship. The old hop-it-in landing did not work when he tried to bring down the giant spaceship, and he crashed. Fortunately the flight was simulated, and Lee was not only able to walk away but also to file a report for this week's story in Science, written...
...turns to Ten Best lists. But it's hard to think of ten best movies when there weren't even ten good ones. And while there were ten good books published last year, who had time to read them? So one is forced back on enumerating under one's breath the minor pleasures in life, the things that--if they bring no new thrills or reasons to go on living--at least stay predictably comfortable. The rich nap of carpeting in Hilles as one crams for an hourly. Nothing to cry Hosanna about, just stray bits of civilization left stranded...
...candidate. "But that doesn't mean that I can't say what I think about this man. He's an honest, open, progressive politician. He stands for the things that you and I believe in--civil rights and housing and the environment. Jimmy Carter's like a breath of fresh air coming out of Georgia, and he's sweeping the country, people...