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...munched extra vitamins, hired six runners to act as pacesetters and a nurse to administer alcohol foot rubs. For all that, protean Hustler Bobby Riggs, 57, won his 25-mile foot race across California's Death Valley against Aussie Distance Runner Bill Emmerton, 56, by a scant 40 minutes. Emmerton had to run the 25-mile course twice and still managed to finish in less than nine hours. "I was ready to play some tennis, but the Death Valley courts aren't lighted, and it was dark by the time Emmerton came in," said Bobby with typical modesty...
...since his retirement. He has an enormous following and will dance again this summer at A.B.T. When Rudolf Nureyev burst upon the West in 1961, he brought back some of the Nijinsky excitement. Nureyev has always had Tartar energy and impact; now 37, he has become a dancer of protean range...
...first State Secretary for the Condition of Women earlier this year. "The American woman has a profound sense of having been conned," she says. "American women were partners in building America, in pioneering, and the next thing they knew, suddenly they were exiled to being housewives ..." Last week the protean, vibrantly handsome author was in the U.S. for a hectic round of interviews and dinners to promote her recently translated autobiography, I Give You My Word. After more than a score of meetings, however, including two with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and one with Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, Giroud...
Chee Chee proclaims himself at the outset a man disturbed almost to insanity by the protean nature of human personality...
Though his protean athletic skills include hunting, soccer and skiing, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing joined thousands of his countrymen by packing up his wife and four teen-age children for a vacation at the beach. While his constituency fought for space in the sand, however, Giscard enjoyed some swimming, tennis and boating in the privacy of a Cote d' Azur estate bor rowed from Prince and Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne. "My vacation I devote especially to my children," declared Giscard to a French reporter, then came...