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...mental and physical health of the entire community. If fancy facilities bring in more wealthy members, well and good. Their dues help support activities for the less privileged. Notes Celeste Wroblewski, spokeswoman for YMCA of the U.S.A., the Chicago headquarters of the more than 2,000 branch organization: "Collectively, Ys are the nation's largest provider of child care; 71% of the youngsters come from families with incomes of less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Putting on the Ritz At the Y | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...built up plywood layers one by one, twisted and glued them meticulously, experimented. He coaxed plywood first into a simple L-leg (1932) to make his wonderful three-legged stacking stool, then split the L into a right-angled Y for table legs (1946), then sliced and bundled his Ys together into fan legs (1954) that look fluid, practically erotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Still Fresh after 50 Years | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...Crimson had little trouble in raising its season record to 7-3, but C. C. N. Ys performance should not be belittled. Many of its wrestlers had never seen a mat before last November. "None of my boys wrestled in high school-this is a brand new sport for them-but they do have spirit and they love to wrestle," coach Henry Wittenberg said...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Grapplers' Pin Parade Stuns C. C. N. Y. | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...categorically exempted from military service; 1-Ys are exempted except during a declared war or national emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Draft-Defying Doctors | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...TENINCY of women to go into social ?k, teaching, nursing and other s?ce-type work can be seen in some?ys as a positive value in a society ?ich puts little stress on social we?e. But it results from a situation o?mdamental inequality...

Author: By Sue Jhirad, | Title: Women: Finding a Life of One's Own | 8/18/1970 | See Source »

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