Word: gym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Empty Seat. When in Washington, Javits is up and about in time to reach the House gym soon after its early morning opening, spending 15 minutes in the pool or working out at paddleball or handball. If he can find a partner, he plays tennis, but he may soon run out of partners; in excellent trim (he weighs 175 Ibs., claims to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, but appears to be at least an inch shorter than that), he is a tough, agile player who gives no quarter. Saunaed, showered and stretched, Javits slides into his dark beige Mustang...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A compassionate look at the difficulties parents experience in bringing up deaf children, focusing on two teenagers: a girl who wants to be a gym teacher and a boy who leans toward botany...
Space Warp & Optic Energy. Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic...
...recent telecast, Rudd described in deadly detail a Soviet sports-instructors' course, "which lasts some four years and involves 4,000 hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization...
...many of the Cliffies, sports tie into other activities. Pat Wynn'68, takes dance courses at the Gym and has danced in Guys and Dolls and Finians Rainbow. Others work in recreational jobs for PBH. A few even go out for the CRIMSON, where they get a lot of leg-work...