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This gruesome image has been framed in the consciousness of a great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
PUBLISHING Impressive Acuisition The Los Angeles Times Mirror...
...great Age of Pericles exist, but Hellenistic sculptures of the succeeding Alexandrian empire, when taste ran to mannered elegance, survive in great numbers. One of the most popular goddesses was Aphrodite, identified by peoples in conquered Egypt and Syria with Isis. She was commonly portrayed primping at her mirror, fixing her hair or adjusting her sandal. St. Augustine testifies that even in his time (the 4th century A.D.) her worshipers repeated these gestures in front of her idol as a form of veneration...
...Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...
...said William Bernbach, chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, which carries the over $6,000,000 Avis account. Now, D.D.B. has counted 47 bugs that plague car renters and pledged to do battle against them throughout 1968. The latest effort features such creatures as the flat-spare bug, the wobbly-mirror bug and the mirror-smearer bug-which "multiply like mad if left alone." In a really competitive business, explains Avis President Winston Morrow, service is the ultimate weapon...