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...more than 100° until the authorities can complete a safety study. (Present conventional ranges: 130° to 160°.) This aroused a storm of indignation among the bathhouse operators. Cried Charles Postl, 72, oldtime Loop steam-bath impresario: "Why, you can't even work up a good sweat at 100°. This is ridiculous. The whole civilized world will laugh at Chicago...
...chair lift, down by force of gravity-what has that got to do with honest physical culture?" demanded Team Leader Constantin Sorokin, one of four "managers" accompanying the girls. "Ski lifts and the like would not be approved in the Soviet Union. Sports without toil and sweat, without the satisfaction of self-denial and self-conquest, are nothing more than an amusement." With that, Comrade Sorokin put his six strapping girls (four blondes, two brunettes) through conditioning exercises, starting at the crack of dawn, that left other competitors gasping...
...like a swimmer's over the surging sea of humanity while official loudspeakers blared: "Please, please, we don't want to mangle the new President." At last Magsaysay was lifted to the shoulders of some of his constituents while others tried to reach up and wipe the sweat from his streaming brow. When he reached his car, one sleeve of his sport shirt had been torn off. His pants were saved only by the safety pins with which he had foresightedly fastened them to his undershirt...
...best, the British in Africa seek slowly to guide what Kipling called their "new-caught, sullen peoples'' across the blur of centuries that divides them from the modern world. At worst, British settlers expect to live, at least until the deluge, off the sweat, tears and ignorance of African servitors...
Returning to Harrow, the old-tie school he attended 60 years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined in a nostalgic community sing, glared whenever any of his entourage of Cabinet ministers failed to bawl out the lyrics as heartily as he. His blood running hot, a trace of sweat on his brow, Sir Winston was moved almost to tears at the reunion's climax when the Harrow boys chorused a familiar version of the school song in his honor: "Nor less we praise in darker days/ The leader of our nation,/ And Churchill's name shall win acclaim...