Word: sport
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...years, and the Harvard Student Study is now in its seventh year of research under grants from the National Institutes of Health. Novel new projects have begun, and one task force is now studying the extent to which athletes use the psychiatric service--focusing on the kind of sport in which each person engages and the length, type, and treatment of his illness...
...Lord," says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official in Washington, "I haven't heard Joe Hill sung at a meeting in 15 years-or anything else, for that matter." The typical local meeting is deadly dull and poorly attended. Members generally wear slacks and sport shirts, including bowling-and softball-league shirts for many who can hardly wait to get out of the hall and on to an avocation that is as often as not company-sponsored. (Another style note: for reasons that might require the services of a mass psychologist, the old white cotton sock has given way in Pittsburgh...
...Swedish doctor was struck by the fact that many diving accidents, some fatal and others nearfatal, could not be explained by the more dramatic dangers to which medical investigators pay most attention. He queried hundreds of Swedish sport divers and found, that no less than one-fourth of them had had occasional episodes of vertigo, and a few had it practically every time they dived. Dizziness struck at any depth from six to 100 feet...
...afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not high-minded Smith College. Despite the unflattering references to the fictional school in Edward Albee's hit play ("Musical beds is the faculty sport here"), Smith is allowing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton the run of the campus for exteriors in the screen version of Virginia Woolf. Explained a Smith official: "As an educational institution we didn't feel we could conscientiously bar them from our premises." A Northampton chamber of commerce official was also unafraid...
Stanley Dancer, 38, is a big man around the East's big-city harness tracks. For three out of the past four years, Trainer-Driver Dancer has been the sport's No. 1 money winner; in 1964, he became the first ever to win more than $1,000,000 in a single season...