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...virtually on a "you-name-it" we'll-get-it" basis, the expanded program answered student requests for judo, scuba diving, and skiing-conditioning. of interest" are prompting consideration of a Radcliffe crew, aviation and squash-court facilities...
...concentration. The silent S.R.O. crowd in Paris' Pierre de Coubertin Stadium strained to catch the first muscular move. With The Netherlands' hulking (6 ft. 5 in. 238 lbs.) Anton Geesink fighting Japan's smaller (6 ft. 1 in. 198 lbs.) Koji Sone, much more than the judo (literally, "gentle way'') championship of the world was at stake. This was a challenge to Japan's dominance over her own national sport, and it was the ultimate test of one of the oldest traditions of judo: the wistful idea that a well-trained judoist can whip...
Horror-stricken Japanese judokas scrabbled for an alibi. The new champion had traveled to Tokyo earlier in the year to spy on Japanese tactics, they said. The Japanese team had not had enough money to return the "honor." A judo professor at Tokyo's Police University blamed the loss on the manner in which U.S. occupation forces revised Japan's education system. A Tokyo nutrition expert argued that Sone had been weakened by eating Parisian breakfasts of coffee and croissants instead of Japanese dried seaweed, bean-paste soup, hot rice...
...International Judo Federation came to a much more logical conclusion: it decided to divide contestants into four weight classes for the 1964 Olympics. "The days are gone," said Novelist Tsuneo Tomita, himself a topnotch judoist, "when judo provided Japanese with a source of childish self-satisfaction in the thought that a small guy can always beat a big fellow...
...Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them to understand The Republic." The only athletic endeavor is judo, "a thing of being concerned with your body and what it does." The judo squad calls itself the Transcendentalists, and its motto is: "It's not whether you can win or lose, but whether you can rise above the scene...