Word: gymnastics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the best equipment in the world," gymnast Brian Eisenberg said, "but it will just rot without a coach." And so the future of gymnastics at Harvard may be determined this Monday when the Faculty Committee on Athletics decides whether to allocate funds for a coach next year...
...bleaker, more perceptive portrait of senility can ever have been written. Bruno wakes daily into pain. The small act of putting on his bathrobe must be thought out carefully in advance, as a gymnast plans a movement in a high-wire act. Bruno has become a monster and knows it. He lives for sips of champagne permitted him each evening and the exhilaration of using the telephone to call wrong numbers and know the thrill of human explanations and regrets. Murkily he perceives that death is a physical...
...club has obtained the coaching services of Joseph L. Massimo, a former Olympic gymnast. He will be at Hemenway two or three afternoons per week this spring. The new facilities will be available to the Harvard community whenever the building is open...
...fitness buff ever since his days as an all-round athlete at San Francisco's Lowell High ('23). So when it came to promoting Teen-Age Fitness, Brown allowed that he'd be glad to lend a hand-two, in fact. Inspired by Connecticut's Gymnast Muriel Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition of gubernatorial pushups. He got up-and down-to four, took...
Horse & Rings. Like most top vaulters of the fiber glass era, Hansen is a jumper-gymnast. He works out as much as four hours a day-on the trampoline, the long horse and the flying rings, lifts weights, does isometric exercises. He has even dieted down from 175 Ibs. to 167 Ibs. on the sensible theory that the lighter he is, the less work he has to do to get himself up where he wants to go. At night he watches home movies of his rivals in action, says proudly that "they probably have movies...