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...workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
Many of their subjects spoke sympathetically of the handicapped, but they often reacted to the sight of deformity with involuntary revulsion: breaking into a sweat or feeling faint chills. Few of them wanted to be friends with a deformed person, much less to marry or adopt one. Most (63%) thought the victims should be kept out of sight in institutions. Although nobody said openly that the handicapped deserve to die, a number spoke guardedly of the merits of euthanasia on the grounds that "they probably would rather be dead...
...would not leave until he had footage proving, as one said, that "if you're rich, you're unhappy." At Greenawalt's bank, most of his colleagues must have been titillated to find out that office pressures led their senior vice president to "actually break a sweat" by 11 a.m. But the president of the bank steadfastly refused to make any comment whatever...
...when he found a two-year-old Ibo child cowering in some bushes, its parents lying dead near by, he personally nursed the boy back to health. After keeping some Biafran army brasshats cooling their heels outside his caravan one night, Steiner emerged soaked with sweat and water. "I have been bathing my baby," he declared deadpan. In contrast to this episode, a trembling young Arab woman whom Steiner held captive in the Sudan testified at his trial that he had snatched her baby and thrown it in a river...
...where the Bruno Sammartinos? Promoter Abe Ford's "Championship Wrestling" at the Boston Garden last Saturday night resembled nothing so much as afternoon ten at the Chilton Club. The wrestlers Ford produced were, for the most part, an unimpressive lot, and they emerged, as Pindar once remarked, "untouched with sweat on thighs or neck." (Pindar was a Greek handicapper...