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...Senior Olympics competitors were high school and college All-Americans a generation or two ago. But many others are no more than moderately talented late bloomers. A fierce competitive spirit drives some. Others are attracted to the Games largely because of the camaraderie or as a way of keeping life fresh and exhilarating: "Because there's always an event coming up," says swimmer Bob Bailie, 64, of The Woodlands, Texas, "a senior athlete always has a date with the future." Here are the stories of five of them...
Once again, athletics are shaping his life, as they did when he was a youthful basketball, softball and track star. He trains as many as six days a week with one or two extreme workouts that include 60-m sprints, a 300-m blowout and leg squats with 275 lbs. on his shoulders. He has a litany of advice for senior beginners: Start gradually and rest at least three days a week. Sprinters who have not run since college can expect two years of training before their muscles, tendons and nervous systems are working at peak. After a hard workout...
...fourth marriage, never left the mating game. "Until my marriage to Elizabeth, my singing career was more important than the pursuit of romance. But after that, women became my addiction," he admits. Like any addiction, it ended up tearing Fisher down. His book is a cautionary tale about life in the fast lane; he goes from the top of the heap, hobnobbing with Presidents, to the bottom, hooked on drugs and broke. Along the way, Fisher, who swings from appealing swagger to appalling hubris, never fails to entertain...
...DOLLAR MERMAID (Simon & Schuster) When Esther Williams was 17, she was taught to "swim pretty," with her head and shoulders above the water so people could see her. She proceeded to do just that, through innumerable hydro-musicals in the '40s and '50s as well as in her personal life, where she seemed to have a knack for choosing the wrong man. Now, in her engaging memoir, co-written with Digby Diehl, she recalls her life as a star at MGM alongside such legends as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Williams, always sassy, proves herself...
...former wrestler objects to Buchanan's social-policy views and may run on the Reform ticket in 2004. Trump is a perfect placeholder. And Ventura genuinely admires Trump. As one Ventura pal puts it, "They're both entrepreneurs who've had wild lives and believe in living their life as an open book. Their views are simpatico." Indeed, Ventura recently snickered that the liberal Beatty should run for President of the "United Socialist States of America." And he touted Trump. "I like what he has to say," Ventura has told friends...