Word: gym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor H. Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, eight boys in the fourth and fifth grades passed up gym class for Rachel Ball's group piano class, sat down at four pianos and gave a passable joint rendition of America the Beautiful, reading the music for the first time...
Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...
...Stuttgart, and their own expenses while there. No one was judged, and everyone was eligible: the age of the participants ranged from 7 to 74. "It's the cheapest form of exercise I can get," explained a German housewife of 38. "I need only a pair of gym shoes and shorts to work out. It's a family sport. My husband and children and I all enjoy it together. Now we like it so much we follow gymnastic events all over Europe...
Michigan State University's Ted Petrie, 21, is the first student in M.S.U. history to graduate with a straight-A record. Son of a foreman at an Oldsmobile forge plant in Lansing, Petrie sagged below A only twice in high school (B's in gym and English literature) "because I didn't work." At M.S.U., where he eased the financial pinch by living at home and working summers as a lifeguard, he found time for swimming, handball and bottle-ball as well as math. Awarded hefty grants for undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation, Petrie...
...Nice." Jackie Kennedy also made a gracious gesture toward the nation's newshens, inviting 200 of them for lunch. The presswomen, led in through the southwest gate, which is usually reserved for state occasions, drove past daughter Caroline's jungle-gym swings and duck pond. Jackie greeted each guest with a warm friendliness. Said she to Eugenia Sheppard, the New York Herald Tribune Women's Feature Editor: "How nice to meet you, at last!" Eugenia melted, could barely wait to rush off to her typewriter. "It was exactly the female kind of party that we took...