Word: stamina
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Pennsylvania's Scranton was making a series of speeches in the East and tending the shop in Harrisburg, still insisting that he will not become a presidential candidate except in answer to a sincere draft. But just in case anyone doubted that he had the stamina and agility it takes, he said he'd been taking the R.C.A.F. conditioning exercises, and demonstrated some high-level nip-ups for a photographer. At week's end he was off to New York with his family for a tour of the World's Fair...
...caught on in the leather-stockinged American colonies. "When the settlers came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold medals; even more remarkable, the Hungarians have won the team saber title in every...
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...