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Robert B. WATS 37, director of Athletics, said Tuesday that the Athletics Department will make a "concerned effort" to open the gym room and adjoining basketball court in Hemenway Gymnasium more often for sorely needed club workouts...
...always wanted a real training camp in the mountains," said Muhammad Ali. "Real logs, hard beds, coal stoves." Ali already has two log cabins and a gym at Deer Lake, Pa.; he plans enough additional cabins and mobile homes to sleep 20 people, including his wife, one son and three daughters. Ali figures such sylvan simplicity is worth the $150,000 it will eventually cost. So far, the 30-year-old ex-heavyweight champion can afford it-this week's Madison Square Garden bout with Floyd Patterson guarantees him $250,000-but after that, Ali plans to go easy...
...apartment. He can take a free vacation at one of the company-owned lodges, or Nippon Kokan will pay the first $3.30 of his daily hotel bill. Medical care for workers and their families is almost totally company financed; an appendectomy costs about $2. Workers can use the company gym and playing field and can shop in the company-operated discount store. Most important, shipyard employees are virtually assured of a job until retirement, and then receive a one-lump severance payment, averaging $20,000 for 30 years' service...
...departs from this upper-class play pattern when he stops at the colossal illuminated sign of the Olympic Studio and Spa, featuring Joe Santo, Mr. Alabama. The studio, an upholstered gym, does a good business jiggling lard off businessmen, but Blake has no interest in that. What shakes his unsuspecting soul is the weight room, the preserve of the body builders-grotesque, protein-stuffed Narcissuses, men intent on becoming planets...
...increasing merit in the schools' cost-conscious approach-full-time teachers (up to 25 hours a week instead of ten), rented buildings and leased equipment instead of handsome campuses, no summer vacations and no frills. As one proprietary-school administrator puts it, "If a kid wants a gym, we send...