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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Breall urges that doctors make sure a weight lifter's blood pressure is not continuously at an abnormally high level. If it is, he says, the patient should be forbidden to do any weight lifting. Other physicians agree with Breall and suggest that anyone with a tendency to high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Perils of Muscle Beach | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

A vengeful Famous Writer might consider doing a skeleton-rattling biography on the Mitfords. Except that Jessica told it all herself in a 1960 book, Daughters and Rebels. And she did it rather eloquently, without taking any correspondence course on how to write.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queen of Muckrakers | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

Nixon's conception is also disturbing because it becomes highly dangerous if pursued to its logical end. Had Harry Truman chosen to apply the Nixon principle in Korea, for example, there would have been no reason for the U.S. to hold back from bombing or even invading Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President as Commander in Chief | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

Since the demand for news of Jackie is obviously there, it may be that the Jackie watchers are the real bores. If overexposure has dimmed her luster as a public figure, too much print and portraiture has done even greater damage to the staying power of other notables. Consider the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DOING THEIR TIRESOME THING | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

The panel will consider ways to temper the inflationary impact of higher wages. By some industry estimates, labor costs account for at least 75% of the price of all U.S. goods. Besides publicizing wage or price increases that seem out of line, the commission will probably delve into the operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: A Rabbit That Could Turn into a Tiger | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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