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Special Agent Frederick Loren Wilt of the FBI works as hard as anybody else at his Manhattan headquarters job five days a week. After hours he takes on job No. 2. He goes home to Brooklyn and runs a dozen miles in the park; early each morning he runs some more. By last week, this sort of routine had helped make slender (145 Ibs.), 29-year-old G-Man Wilt the best two-miler in the U.S. and a real threat to current U.S. mile king Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin...
...Fred Wilt is not sure why he goes to all the trouble. "Running is like poetry," he says. "The world could go on without it." It just happens that running is the thing Fred Wilt does best...
...ankle hurt and he had a bad second-row starting position. At the first turn, Fred Wilt lagged along in last place. The announcer gave the time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place...
...against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...
Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...