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Alas, too many need to do so, for few can boast any real brawn. "It's the best-kept secret in America today -- the lack of youth fitness," declares former Pro Football Coach George Allen, chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "It's a disgrace." The alarm comes as a shock to most parents. Nine out of ten believe their own youngsters are physical marvels, a Louis Harris poll reported for Children magazine. In truth, 40% of boys and 70% of girls cannot do more than a single pull-up, according to a survey...
Programs like the one David is in are beginning to demonstrate gains, but many more of them will be needed if the nation's youth is to lose its flaccid profile. Meanwhile, health experts read with awe and admiration about China and West Germany, where strenuous exercise programs for children are the norm. American lassitude is proving difficult to overcome. "It isn't like being in the locker room with 45 players and you go through that door and get immediate results," says George Allen, after five years of being coach to the nation. "It's very difficult to motivate...
...film The Philadelphia Experiment, a youth is hurtled from the 1940s into the present. He finds solace in a motel, watching Abbott and Costello reruns. Then he switches to a Reagan press conference. "Allison," he says to a friend, "I know this guy. Is this another movie?" Her answer: "No, David, this is not a movie...
...have recently sprung up are linked, and none have a political agenda. Many of their battles with the comrades come down to generational conflicts. Says Wilfried Scharf, a lecturer at Cape Town University's Institute of Criminology: "The clashes between the vigilantes and the comrades are indicative of the youth movement's attempts to shatter the older generation's power." To that extent the feuding is, quite literally and tragically, a battle between fathers and sons...
Family members recall that in his youth, success was always paramount with George. In 1943, at 18, he became the youngest pilot in the Navy. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery under fire. Longtime friends believe that Bush, one of four sons, was determined to please his imposing father, Prescott Bush, a Wall Street banker who later became a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. However it happened, the son has ever since been in physical overdrive...