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...Stretchers. One way to find moments of leisure is to stretch out each day. Goldwater normally arises by 5:30 a.m., takes a sandwich at his Washington desk if he lunches at all. George Romney gets up at 5:45, jogs through his Lansing neighborhood in sweat togs before breakfast, lugs peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the office in a brown paper bag. Bill Scranton is up at 6:30 in his Indiantown Gap executive mansion, 20 miles from Harrisburg. Mrs. Smith is awake at 6:45, keeps a blender in her office to whip up a dietary lunch...
...Sweat became noticeable on the Harvard bench during the two-mile, as Walt Hewlett started slow and finished slower. The predicted six points for the Crimson vanished into none when Yale's Jeff Sidney, whom Hewiett defeated last week, led a pack of alien runners across the tape ahead of the Crimson sophomore...
...produce or shop for their needs; huddled protectively in the railway stations between trains, they exude the musty smell of damp wool, onions, bitter tobacco and accumulated sweat that has blanketed Russia far longer and more pervasively than Marxism...
...Sweat. But ordinary laymen need no equipment at all-and precious little time. They may even resculpture their bodies while doing something else without attracting undue attention. To take one inch to three inches off the paunch in a mere month: 1) inhale deeply, pushing out the abdomen as far as possible and holding it there one second; 2) exhale, pull the abdomen in as far as it will go and hold it there for six seconds; 3) repeat six times a day in any position...
Isometrics do nothing to improve anyone's dexterity, coordination or stamina, and will never result in acquiring a tan. But they do provide more strength faster than anything else. Their no-sweat convenience and brevity, plus their adaptability to anybody's problem area, has already spawned a clutch of manuals on the subject and a menu of exercises as long as an unflexed arm. The U.S. Navy has endorsed the exercises, and its magazine, All Hands, has published a series of nine isometrics that it calls "ideal for Navymen whose duties on location restrict their ability to engage...