Sport: Souped-Up Athletes?

The doctor thought he saw a disturbing symptom. When he was a college lad, "the four-minute mile was as unlikely as flying to the moon." but nowadays it is only a little better than par for the course. "The recent rash of four-minute milers is no coincidence," darkly concluded Dr. Herbert Berger, chairman of New York State Medical Society's Subcommittee on Addiction to Alcohol and Narcotics, as he stood last week before this year's convention in New York City of the American Medical Association (see MEDICINE).

Dr. Berger offered a diagnosis: many of the...

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