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...manned space-flight program is a costly publicity stunt and a shameless boondoggle at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to cope with urgent public needs. Many will insist on sympathetic but unthinking cheerleading for the space program, but we have to come up with a leaner, fitter and more successful plan. JUSTIN WHITTINGTON Washington...
...always won matches just because I’m faster and fitter than other people,” Whitman said. “Having an injury like this, playing a long match is a liability, so I need to do more work with my racket and less with my legs...
...time Trent was ready to start the seventh grade, his family had moved to Pascagoula, where his father got a job as a pipe fitter in the shipyard. Trent was too small for football, so he played tuba in the band. He had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed "Gap." But he was smart and friendly, discreetly helping classmates with homework and lavishing attention on kids like himself who weren't athletic or attractive. "And you know what?" he once told Time. "Turns out we were the majority...
...Patterson had difficulty putting the ball away, leading to long points that further exhausted him. He tried to end the match quickly, but found Beck fitter than he had expected and made several unforced errors before recovering from the brief hiccup...
...Kelly was a strict taskmaster on the set, an obsessive games-player in team charades at home with friends. (Gene and Betsy Kelly were a bit like the Kennedys, athletic, competitive and clannish; late in life, Gene looked like a much fitter Teddy.) Playing volleyball in the backyard, he became so vexed at his inability to score that in anger he stomped his foot, broke an ankle ? and convinced friend Fred to come out of his first retirement and take over the Kelly role in "Easter Parade...