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...appropriate for the jungle war that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried to nutter one shutter with a judo hold, lost her footing, ended up khaki slacks over tea kettle in a perfect pants-point landing...
...gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than 50 schools across...
...sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation, judo. But where their aim is to use an opponent's own weight to throw him to the floor without necessarily injuring him, karate aims at increasing its user's own strength to kill or injure an adversary by striking him at any of 26 vital points-chiefly with...
...Dutch figurative painter, Klein took to art after briefly trying his hand at training race horses in Ireland and then at professional judo wrestling in Japan. He found that working with brushes was too finicky, so he bought himself a paint roller that could cover even the biggest canvas in a trice. In time, when rollers proved a bore, he hit upon the idea of smeared models, whom he calls "living brushes." With this technique, Klein does not have to touch the painting at all: "I want to be the umpire between the canvas and the animal, vegetable and mineral...
President, World Cultural Society; Chemical Society; PBH General Hospitals Committee; Harvard Judo Club; Young Republican Club...