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...dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid snacks and used to work out at Y.M.C.A. "Swim and Slim" classes-exertions that have served more to re distribute her weight than to take it off. She is an enthusiastic amateur dec orator and refurbished the Governor's exquisite 19th century mansion at Annapolis in a style she calls "Victorian with chintz." Her husband, however, included an imported sauna bath in the restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Running Mate's Mate | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...guess the limits of how fast the youngsters will eventually swim. It is only safe to predict that competitive swimming will create a new breed of tragic hero: the Teen-Age Has-Been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Tarzan v. the Tads | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Even the girls would have left Tarzan gasping in their wake. Debbie Meyer, 15, the snub-nosed aquabelle from Sacramento, Calif., shattered world records in the 400-meter freestyle (4 min. 26.7 sec.) and 800-meter freestyle (9 min. 17.8 sec.), led Arden Hills Swim Club to another record (8 min. 46.2 sec.) in the 800-meter freestyle relay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Tarzan v. the Tads | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...this convention action that cannot be culled from the press and TV. Perhaps the most important is the hotel-hopping. On Tuesday, having decided to take the afternoon off, I picked up my bathing suit and drove with a friend to the Versailles Hotel, where I would swim as his guest. As we walked up to the hotel door, a car swooped by, the doors opened simultaneously, and four men hopped out, wearing Secret Service badges. As I got within ten yards of the door of the hotel, the crowd gathered outside began to scream, "Here he comes, here comes...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: The Convention - A Glittering Bore | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...crosses your path, it's bad luck, "If you want to tell a lie, it's all right if it's a white lie," and TV viewers see a single-handed super white honkie who swings from trees for miles, fights the jungle's beasts for hours, can swim for miles, run at top speed for miles and still have enough energy left to out smart, out hunt and even defeat whole tribes of natives. And you, Oh God, even you are pictured across the country by the Whites as having blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. You wear...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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