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...Although gym instructors did not mind the numbers of students in such skill sports as sailing and dancing, the harm the team sports and the over-all picture was found undesirable. Mrs. Parker has said that she strongly favors a plan somewhat more flexible than that used in previous years. Physical education would again be required for freshman, she said, but intermurals and club activities could count toward fulfillment of thed requirement...
Granite-faced Bear Bryant (he earned the nickname wrestling a bear at the age of eleven) reports for work each day promptly at 5:30 a.m., sometimes spends the night sacked out in his spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked...
...volunteers are working with "sexually dangerous persons," the criminally insane, and defective delinquents at Bridgewater Prison. The students serve as gym instructors, classroom teachers, and, in the case of the Radcliffe volunteers, interviewers...
...Victor H. Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, eight boys in the fourth and fifth grades passed up gym class for Rachel Ball's group piano class, sat down at four pianos and gave a passable joint rendition of America the Beautiful, reading the music for the first time...
Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...