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...Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most distinguished drama west of Broadway. The Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is one of the finest in the country. The Twins, the North Stars and the Vikings have brought a state of natural participant sportsmen into the big leagues...
Most of the sportsclub members work out in a gym at least once a week. Many hike regularly, bowl, ride bikes or swim. Others ski cross-country, sometimes covering as many as twelve miles a day. Nothing remarkable about this-except that the sportsmen and women are all at least 62, and some are more than 90. Their club is just one part of an unusual city-run program in Grenoble, France, designed to help the aged rediscover their youth and zest for life through physical, social and artistic activity...
Down on the playing field, another version of time exists, Einsteinian in its complexity. Other sportsmen keep an eye on the minute hand, hoping to "kill" the clock. In baseball, time is subservient to circumstance. An inning may last six pitches or 80 minutes. Official games have gone 4½ innings, and 26. That timelessness is at once the game's curse and its glory. At the conclusion of his disastrous World Series with the Mets, Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver philosophized, "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just...
...Europe is passé for many American travelers; they demand more variety or excitement than is offered by the Tower of London or the Louvre. To satisfy the growing market for novelty, travel agents, airlines and ship lines are packaging an extraordinary assortment of excursions designed for hobbyists, sportsmen, intellectuals, health addicts and a host of other categories. Consider such esoterica as a journey to Dracula's lands in Rumania for those fascinated by the supernatural or the upcoming Pacific excursion led by California scientists that will track and observe schools of whales in Baja California's Scammons...
...gave Japan baseball and now Japan is giving baseball Nichiren Shoshu, a turned-on version of Buddhism and 20th century power of Positive Thinking. Nichiren Shoshu claims 200,000 members in the U.S., including Los Angeles Dodger outfielder Willie Davis, 32. "This religion is simply a must for sportsmen," said Davis while on pilgrimage to the head temple at the foot of Mount Fuji. "I was never a great home-run hitter. I hit only ten home runs in the 1971 season. Last year I suddenly ended up hitting 19 because I chanted my prayers every morning and night...