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Despite such awesome sponsorship, a minority of businessmen still have strong reservations about Sensitivity Training. Although he praises the program in general, Richard Kuck, a personnel executive with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, warns that "there are people who are powerful administrators who might become too self-critical and tone down the traits that make them good." Robert Service, a top executive with the Los Angeles drug firm of Riker Laboratories Inc., walked out of the U.C.L.A. program after one session, with the complaint that "it dealt purely with emotions and not content . . . It seemed to me, it was group therapy under...
...Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage set for a Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished...
...shot put we can compare very favorably with Europe's entrants. Houser from California, winner in the 1924 Olympics, Swartz from Wisconsin, and Kuck from Kansas have all done 50 feet. The scores we have from Europe were the records established a year ago. Vahstedt from Finland ranks highest with 48.3 feet; he is followed by Brechenmacher and Janssons, both men being able to put the shot 47.3 feet. All these men have greatly improved, and can throw nine feet further, although no such results have been officially recorded...
...Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches -a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record...
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