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The Soviet sports program, supervised by the Physical Culture and Sports Committee of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers, is organized down to the level of nursery school and factory. At the top are 39 "voluntary sports societies" run by regional labor unions. Each has its own teams, facilities, and badges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inside the Big Red Machine | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Although she has played the New England golf tour for the last five summers, Greis has had to hold a job for school expenses and has not given the sport her undivided attention. She badly wants to polish her game--"I plan to be pretty intense," she says--with the...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Greis: On the Attack | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Besides the bookstore and a lay healing group, the society offers numerous classes. One week's schedule included parapsychology, Swedish massage, meditation, the seven bodies, esoteric astrology and vibrant earth. One hundred dues-paying members help sustain the Boston group, and there are lodges in 52 nations and two-thirds...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

JAZZ FIRST flourished in wide-open towns--New Orleans, Kansas City-- where whorehouses and gambling dens needed "hot music" to keep the customers fired-up and spending. So it's not surprising that jazz musicians have always been obsessed with "paying dues," the tradition of enduring hardships and degrading work...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Blow! | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

Ullman, who teaches English at Tufts and writes jazz criticism for The New Republic, has padded his book with stock appreciations of the recent dead-- Joe Venuti, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. These great artists certainly merit our attention, but Ullman's second-hand tributes east little light on the...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Blow! | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

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