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...raining buckets outside the gym at George Washington University. And inside too, it seemed, as Senator J. William Fulbright sat on the bench watching his team battle it out. "It looked to me like the opposition had all the big guys," he said, when it was all over and his team had come in on the uninspired end of a 53-38 score. But why this sudden interest in basketball for an old football fan? It turns out that one of G.W.'s intramural squads has christened itself "the Fulbrights"-complete with red shirts emblazoned with a white dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Other experiences in the "at least once" category include weekly nude co-ed swims in the college pool (or a more seasonal variety of frolic under midnight rain). Also, weekly "touch festivals" in the gym, with such exercises in trust as giving yourself to a random mate to blindfold you and help you rediscover the familiar environs under his guidance. I do not believe that the surrounding middle-western folk are quite aware of all that goes on at Antioch...

Author: By Diana M. Henry, | Title: Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche | 2/5/1969 | See Source »

Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster-the tough guy who really is all heart. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and bandy-legged, he could pass as one of those middle-aged truck drivers who spend their days oiT lifting weights at the local gym, then go home and cook up a dinner for the wife and kids-"Joe's Special Recipe for Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His Life and Crimes | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Last Thursday night, in the depressingly silent visitor's dressing room at the University of San Francisco Memorial Gym, Harvard guard Eric Gustavson sat slumped in a corner, replaying the Crimson's two point loss to the Dons...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

Dressed in a blue blouse and grey skirt and wearing a new, close-cropped hairdo, Folk Singer Joan Baez looked more like yesterday's gym teacher than today's pop protester. She was beginning to sound different, too, as she conducted a press conference prior to an L.A. one-night stand. On campus demonstrations: "Downright silly. You don't accomplish anything by breaking in and smoking the president's cigars." On the convention demonstrations in Chicago: "Really filthy." On politics: "It is patronizing for white liberals to swing along with the Black Panther Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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