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- Feb. 26, 1990: Grapevine:Pressing The Flesh
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 26, 1990 Predator's Fall
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 37
- Grapevine
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- <p> PRESSING THE FLESH. Some Washington heavyweights are
- shedding excess poundage. White House press secretary Marlin
- Fitzwater has lost so much weight (55 lbs.) on an Optifast
- liquid diet that even Mikhail Gorbachev commented on it at
- Malta. House Speaker Tom Foley, who has dropped 20 lbs., vows
- to get rid of 25 more. House Ways and Means chairman Dan
- Rostenkowski, who balloons every winter from holiday partying,
- is living mostly on grapefruit. Republican national chairman Lee
- Atwater's Slim-Fast diet of milkshakes was emulated by some of
- his dutiful staff, but the boss has let them down. Explains an
- aide: "Lee's idea of a diet is to drink two Slim-Fast meals,
- then go out and eat 25 chicken wings dipped in honey for
- dinner." His weight loss so far: 0 lbs.
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