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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hercules had trouble getting to the WCVB studios out in Needham. He finally threatened to walk, only 20 miles; it aroused the maternal instincts of a friend of his. On two hours sleep (Hercules always hated the morning) Hercules tried to frame questions. There was something in bodybuilding that touched the existentialist in Hercules, although he found it hard to express. He suspected that Arnold lived out on the edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...People who work at night need their sleep," Graham added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Will Ask State Help To Protect Older Tenants | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...worst forms of pressure came from the hostages' complete dependence on their captors. They had to ask permission to perform the simplest activities, from drinking a glass of water to even going to sleep. Said Air Force Captain Neal ("Terry") Robinson, 27, an administrator in the embassy's budget section: "They were our fathers and mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bound for Hours, Facing the Walls | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Down--Sanchez includes some fascinating anecdotes and hitherto unreported incidentals. He tells us, for example, that Ronnie Wood met his wife Chrissie while listening to the Stones play at the Crawdaddy. He tells us how Marianne Faithfull, actress, singer, and onetime "good friend" of Mick Jagger, originally wouldn't sleep with either Jagger or Richards because of their zits: "She didn't think she could ever bring herself to kiss a man with zits." Sanchez reveals how the "water rats" line in "Live With Me" stems from an actual rat-shoot out at Keith's estate, and how the previously...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Stoned Wheat Thins | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...Then, while shopping one day, she suddenly fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain, for several months before he died in his sleep. In both cases, doctors assumed the fatal attacks had been triggered by blood clots or atherosclerotic plaques clogging the pencil-thin arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle. But autopsies showed that the coronary arteries of both victims were free of obstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Big Squeeze | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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