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When building their own facilities proves impractical, many firms pay workers part or all of the cost of enrolling in independent health clinics. Among them are Los Angeles' Atlantic Richfield Plaza Fitness Center, with twelve corporate clients, and Manhattan's Cardio-Fitness Center, which has Celanese Corp., Dun & Bradstreet Co., Time Inc. and the National Hockey League among its 35 company supporters. The centers offer the latest in rowing, cycling, jogging and weight-lifting gadgets. They provide members with freshly laundered exercise clothing, private lockers and hairdryers...
...girl's training need not be less vigorous than a boy's. Dr. Barbara Drinkwater, a research physiologist at the University of California's Institute of Environmental Stress, found that prepubertal girls are precisely the same as boys in cardio-respiratory (heart-lung) endurance capacity. Parents who worry about their young daughters overtaxing tender hearts while turning a fast 440 should realize that the human machine is designed to shut down -through leg cramps, side stitches, and dizziness-if the strain is too severe...
...Gerald Austen, professor of surgery and chief of the surgical cardio-vascular unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, agreed with Nadas that the ethical implications of heart transplant operations needed further study. "I wouldn't want to imply that the ones that have been done haven't been done just right ethically," he added...
...Robert E. Gross, William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery and chief of the surgical cardio-vascular unit at Children's Hospital, also questioned how complete the information on dog transplants...
...American Heart Association's 1965 Howard W. Blakeslee Award was presented Wednesday to Dr. Francis D. Moore, Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. The award, which carries $500 honorarium, is given for distinguished reporting in the cardio-vascular field...