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According to Dr. Robert Cantu, a Concord, Mass., sports-medicine specialist, athletic ability consists of three elements. Endurance generally peaks in the late 20s and is sustainable into the mid-30s, then deteriorates slowly, at about 1% a year. Strength peaks later, perhaps not until the 40s, then deteriorates even more slowly. Coordination, including reflexes, can be maintained at nearly 100% capability until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Coming Back to Me Now! | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...course, the natural customer for Mexican oil and gas, and López Portillo knows that, but the issue is now tangled with national pride. In Mexico City last week, leftists were urging Lopez Portillo not to back down during his talks with Carter. Advised Gaston Garcia Cantu in the magazine iSiempre!: "The saddest destiny awaits those on whom the Americans bestow the dubious title 'Mister Amigo.' " Several thousand students demonstrated in Independence Plaza, carrying anti-Carter placards and chanting "iFuera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Mexico with Love | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...where the ocean is 3,140 ft. deep. Four outboard propellers driven by 200-h.p. engines churned the water fore and aft, but, according to plan, the ship did not move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing the ship's position in relation to the fixed buoys. When Cuss I tended to get out of position, Cantu worked a wheel and a joy stick that changed the speed and direction of the four propellers and so kept the ship accurately over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hole in the Ocean | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Gilbert Roland (real name: Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso). 49, Mexican-born Latin lover of the silent screen (Camille) turned character actor (My Six Convicts); and Guillermina Cantu, 29. a Mexico City socialite; he for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Constance Bennett), she for the first; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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