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...from our readers and our advertisers without either of whom we would not exist. The Phoenix has played a proud role in the changing face of print journalism during its 15-year history, and looks forward to continuing to play such a role in the future." Break out the Perrier; let's party...
Ponce de León's story used to be good for a smile. A fountain of youth? Bartender, let's have another martini. On second thought, make that a double "designer" water-Perrier, Saratoga, Poland Springs-and make it snappy; everyone must get home early. There are morning miles to run and dance classes to attend and weights to lift. These days old Ponce would have swum to Bimini and jogged through Florida. And felt better for it, whether he found that pesky fountain...
Surprise, fellas. The fitness boom has grown for a decade, and improving the body has become an enduring, and perhaps historically significant, national obsession. These days, even the wise guys order a second Perrier. On any given day in the Republic this year, a record 70 million Americans-almost half the adult population-will practice some form of corporeal self-betterment. The figure is a startling one: in 1960 only 24% worked out. Paring it, preening it, pumping it up and pounding it down, the body national is being rejuvenated with a relentless impatience, slimmed with a fanatic dedication...
...fluid oz., vs. 95? for an equivalent quantity of Perrier, and 1.50 for the same amount of water taken directly, uncarbonated, from the tap. The store says it is getting orders for its version of Big Apple juice from hydrophiles as far away as Miami and Houston...
...inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three things: (1) it always showed you other people's living...