Word: gymnasted
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...there to work," says Actress Natalie Wood of the Anatomy Asylum, the newest hangout for Hollywood heavies. The health spa and its adjoining 25-ft. salad bar, which were opened two months ago by a slimmed-down model for chubby fashions and a former A.A.U. gymnast, already serve a clientele that includes Sally Struthers of TV's All In The Family, Singer Diana Ross, Actress Yvette Mimieux and Comedian Woody Allen. Not everyone is willing to accept the full star treatment apparently. "The food is really excellent," says Struthers, who confesses that she has not yet entered the gymnasium...
...Sometimes I feel like dumping it all," Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut grumbled to a Russian reporter in her home town of Grodno. "I am getting sick and tired of gymnastics. I don't have enough strength." All that exercise has become more difficult: "I am 20, not 12." ECsides, she added, who cares about more medals? "I don't need them. I need the love of the public." And what would she like to do next? "I won't make a ballerina; I am too small. I dream of being an actress...
Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...
...little problems in the meet," junior gymnast Martha Malkin said yesterday. "We didn't know which tricks were scored as medium or superior. On the bars none of us got over one point, while all of the Holyoke girls got threes and fours...
...needs the glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...