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...return to the building and take a lingering look as the $98,000 sedan collects three more of Rolls' 3,800 employees for the pleasure trip they are entitled to under company policy. "I knew I'd ride in a Rolls one day," says Jack Goodwin, 62, a gearbox builder at the firm since 1938, "but I assumed I'd be in a wooden...
...raised its national ranking from 15th to third in number of top-rated graduate programs; of cancer; in Woodside, Calif. A historian at the California Institute of Technology who was a regular cbs radio news commentator in the 1940s, Sterling became Stanford's major modern builder, heading record-shattering fund drives ($300 million in 1972-77), increasing operating expenditures from $10 million annually to $108 million, expanding the faculty by 170% and the student body...
DIED. Vic Tanny, 73, body builder who founded a nationwide chain of 100 or more gymnasiums and fitness centers that started in the mid-1930s and were the first to shed the grubby, back-street gym image in favor of carpets, chrome, cleanliness, swimming pools and a "pay as you perspire" plan that attracted working- class men and women; of a heart attack; in Tampa...
...muscles, then, are a form of decoration, and not always a very pretty one. The body is the raw material. The body builder labors to release the Platonic ideal of the hunk within. Most Westerners like motion and action in their athletics. Muscle building tends toward stasis, toward posing the body in tableaux, a series of Grecian urns...
Jones' product line has expanded like the chest of an avid body builder. Last year Nautilus began selling machines for the home, priced at $485. He now has 37 different models for fitness centers that go for an average $2,640. Nautilus will launch a line of shoes and exercise wear early next year. But Jones' highest interest lies in medicine, to which he has donated some $11 million for research. Next month doctors and clinics will begin receiving a new computerized Nautilus machine (price: $30,000) that is designed to aid physical therapy by measuring strength...