Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isometrics do nothing to improve anyone's dexterity, coordination or stamina, and will never result in acquiring a tan. But they do provide more strength faster than anything else. Their no-sweat convenience and brevity, plus their adaptability to anybody's problem area, has already spawned a clutch of manuals on the subject and a menu of exercises as long as an unflexed arm. The U.S. Navy has endorsed the exercises, and its magazine, All Hands, has published a series of nine isometrics that it calls "ideal for Navymen whose duties on location restrict their ability to engage...
...built from parts of a Fairchild K-20, a Linhof and a Speed Graphic, with a hood made from a cooking pot off a restaurant steam table. Going to press with the RELIGION color pictures of Pope Paul's pilgrimage was a problem of speed - as well as stamina and a little bit of luck - for a crew of photographers working under the general field guidance of Rome Bureau Chief Robert E. Jackson and Beirut Chief George de Carvalho. Photographer Ben Martin was seized and dragged into St. Anne's Church by confused guards who, after demanding...
...Donnell, starting right guard, probably won't see action this afternoon, and the playing status of reserve halfbacks Jim Powell and Richard Mechem is doubtful. If these two aren't ready to go, starting halfbacks Bobby Leo and Pat Conway will have to show stamina as well as speed...
...likely that Harvard students will get these essentials. The aspiring artist still will not have an easy time. Nor should he. Robert Henri, probably the greatest art teacher America has ever produced, once said: "The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways.... alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well...
There are dozens more. Boston College's Jack Concannon has size (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) and stamina, delights in the long scoring strike that breaks up ball games. The pros especially like Maryland's Dick Shiner ("a stylist") and Baylor's Don Trull ("a football genius"). Even the Ivy is blooming: up on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Coach Buff Donelli is touting Junior Archie Roberts as the best quarterback in Columbia's history-better than Gene Rossides or Paul Governali, better even than Sid Luckman...