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...Washington Caplin is still running hard. "His briefcase never leaves his side," sighs his wife Ruth. But Caplin seldom misses his weekly Saturday workout in the Pentagon gym with his three sons. (He also has two daughters, giving him a total of seven exemptions on his income tax.) Only five pounds over his college fighting weight. Caplin often lunches on Metrecal at his desk, always bends and stretches through a strenuous course of calisthenics no matter how late he gets home. "I lie in bed and count for him." says Ruth. "It does me a lot of good...
Elsewhere on the grounds are a tree house, a jungle gym, barrels, sandbox, swings and a playhouse-a veritable Disneyland for the Kennedy children and their lucky friends. As a menagerie, the White House rivals the Washington...
...hard to say exactly why Harvard basketball squads do not compare with the school's other athletic teams. The backgrounds of the players are certainly as impressive as those in other sports. The high school-like gym and a de-emphasis atmosphere may have something to do with it, but one suspects that a winning team would quickly build a following...
...proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
Besides the infiltration of men, Miss Paget has noticed other changes in the gym program this year. "There is more diversity in the activities and the girls are becoming more involved in a particular sport," she said...