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Lots of people liked Julian Harvey. A handsome, curly-headed, flat-bellied man of 44, he was a familiar figure around the Florida ports where he worked as a captain and sometime seaman on chartered yachts. He was a weight lifter and a physical-fitness cultist, with a stammer that somehow seemed to enhance his charm. Moreover, he was as brave as he was likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes...
...Lifter of Standards. In these recent developments, and even more notably in the formative years of U.S. medicine, the A.M.A. has played a promotional role. When 250 doctors from 22 states met in Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences in 1847 to found the American Medical Association, both the need for it and its aims were clear. In the still raw frontier nation, most doctors were products of dubious diploma mills or outright quacks. The A.M.A. took on the job of raising the standards of medical education to the level of those in Europe, and of driving...
...biggest chain of sweatshops in the U.S. is owned lock, stock and bar bell by wedge-shaped Californian Vic Tanny, 48, an ex-weight lifter whose sell is every bit as hard as his muscles. Capitalizing on the fetish of physical fitness, Tanny has lured more than a million Americans into some 80 chrome-and-red-carpet Vic Tanny gyms scattered across the U.S., signed them up to membership contracts of six months (typical East Coast price: $185) to "permanent" (seven years: $360) on the pay-as-you-perspire plan. Last week in Chicago, Tanny's muscular sell...
...meet's most dramatic moment was its very last. Ever since a bad leg kept him off the 1956 Olympic squad, Pole Vaulter Don Bragg, 29, had pointed for the 1960 team. At Palo Alto, Bragg sprinted down the runway, set his pole, hauled hard with his weight lifter's arms, and soared over the bar at 15 ft. 9¼ in. to break by an inch the world record of Marine Bob Gutowski. Then started one of the wildest victory dances in track history. Bellowing with delight, Bragg tossed wood shavings in the air, waved his arms...