Fair play and the amateur in sport

How ls it possible to describe the meaning of what we enjoy, whether it be Mozart, Cézanne or sport? One would need to be a sociologist and philosopher as well as a doctor to do justice to this subject. At the centre is the problem of a mind-body relationship, and considering our relative ignorance about the workings both of the body and the mind, it ls hardly surprising that the relationship between the two of them should stretch us to our limits of comprehension.

Learn more in What makes the athlete run?, by Roger G. Bannister

Other articles in this issue:

Etchcraft on celluloid (on Norman McLaren), by Anne MacDermot

Countdown for space flight: "The First Voyage Towards the Stars", by Vladimir Dyomin, Evgeny P. Aksenov, and Evgeny Grebenikov

New tools to map our hidden mineral wealth, by J.M. Bruckshaw

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