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Before each game, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath finds a quiet spot and seems to nod off. In the middle of a gale on Long Island Sound, while her friends are wrestling with lines and sails, Wendy Sherman, a Manhattan adwoman, slips to the bow of a 36-ft. yawl, makes herself as comfortable as she can, and closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other...
...Breed" presents a number of star athletes--or more appropriately, headline grabbing athletes--and attempts to show what effect each has had on their particular sport. Gemme looks at twelve athletes in all, among them Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, and Bobby Fischer, with Billie Jean King and jockey Kathy Kusner representing the female side of the sports world...
...nowhere. "I'm just sick," says Manning. "What is so disheartening is that I was having my best preseason. We were making progress toward a more productive offense." For the Jets, the loss of Woodall leaves the team without an experienced quarterback in reserve behind fragile Joe Namath who has already put in three weeks on the sidelines with a pulled side muscle...
Merv Griffin, Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath and Peggy Lee practice it. So do thousands of other Americans, both famous and unfamous. Their passion, Transcendental Meditation, was not much more than a student cult when it first caught on in the '60s. But today TM, as its devotees call it, claims a fast-growing following among suburban housewives, businessmen, athletes and even retirees. The number of active TM practitioners has jumped from about 250,000 two years ago to more than 575,000 at present. Now TM has achieved indisputable certification as a full-blown nationwide...
...never thought it would come to anything," laughed Housewife-turned-Author Rose Namath Szolnoki. After 18 months at the typewriter, however, Rose has come up with a biography of her skeptical son, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Willie Namath. The book, titled Namath: My Son Joe, is still three months away from publication, but movie rights have already been sold and Broadway Joe himself tapped for the title role. "Joe has changed a lot over the past three years," said Rose last week, sounding more like mother than author. "Before, he had this image of the big sex symbol...