Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard classes, past or present. There are numerous businessmen, doctors and lawyers, several professors and government officials, a sprinkling of clergymen, architects, city planners and psychoanalysists. There is a president of a turkey hatchery and a candy manufacturer. There is a surgeon, Stephen E. Hedberg, who believes his peers thought their futures were set 25 years ago, and that they had no idea of the changes in values, customs and ideals they would face. He had no idea then either that he would be 40 pounds overweight with soaring cholesterol levels that would motivate him to start jogging, lose...
...months ago, Lucy King, 35, a New Orleans housewife, began getting up at 5 a.m. to jog with her husband. "The first two weeks, my body thought I was going to die and my mind was convinced. I didn't want to do it. I hated it." Now, she says, she feels buoyant after her mile-and-a-half run, and the feeling lasts for most of the day. 'Tm pleased with myself...
...general, it's a positive addiction," says Bernard Gutin, a runner who is professor of applied physiology at Teachers College at Columbia. "Running seems to do away with linear thought; same with meditation. A lot of people find that they get creative solutions to problems. I suspect that the euphoria comes from emitting a lot of alpha waves, although there has been no study...
Running is certain to be the best-researched sport in history, because so many researchers are running, but not much thought seems to have been given to running and alcohol. Most exercise books advise against mixing the two. but in terms suggesting that what is being purveyed is merely conventional wisdom. Not long ago Runner's World, the amiable and authoritative magazine subscribed to by just about all serious foot flappers, published an article alleging that alcohol has not hurt the performances of several distance runners. Frank Shorter, the Olympic gold medalist, is said to have swallowed...
Crimson golf captain Alex Vik thought the season had ended for him after the Easterns, but then the NCAA selection committee decided he deserved a shot at playing in the granddaddy of collegiate golf tournaments. Vik will tee off with 185 other contestants from 29 schools this Wednesday in his third NCAA tournament in as many years. The four-day 72-hole event is being held at the Colgate golf course in Hamilton...