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When it comes to ways of fattening their bankrolls, the new fitness entrepreneurs have left few shoelaces untied. In a cinder-block building in Van Nuys, Calif., infants get put through exercise routines: 16-month-olds pretend to look like pretzels, swing from rings and run a kiddie obstacle course of bars and tunnels that looks like a miniature golf course, while older children learn what Junior Gym Founder Judy Braun calls "directionality" and have "rhythmic experiences." Eight lessons cost $55. The gym, begun in 1973, had revenues last year of $250,000 and profits before taxes...
Some of Mark's teammates also had good days. In the 110-meter hurdles Chuck Johnson set a new personal record of 14.6 seconds--a full third of a second off his old time--on a cinder track that is only a little faster than the novels in Comp Lit 154, "Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevski...
...time was okay." Herlihy said yesterday. "The track was cinder so it might have been better on a different track. But I really didn't expect to be running this well so early in the season...
...water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes. While Mercieca stirred up the townsfolk through a bullhorn, one of the intruders revved up a bulldozer and rammed it into the building's iron railing. After knocking down a stone staircase and a cinder-block wall, he scooped the rubble into huge mounds that obstructed the building's entrances. The all-male group of immigrants, who had recently been forced to move from condemned dwellings in a nearby village, offered little resistance...
...Gethsemani, Merton was given permission to build a modest, cinder-block hermitage in which to write and pray, and to receive a mounting stream of visitors. His message journeyed far beyond the confines of the retreat into a world with which he was finally at ease. The perduring cause was peace - a cause he had first championed in his days at Columbia in the 1930s: peace among races, peace in Viet Nam, peace between the superpowers who were to decide the fate of billions of souls. The irksome discipline of the monastery, Furlong concludes, had given him the freedom...