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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced from his first wife, Wright is remarried and has five children. He works long hours but always retires early to get a solid nine hours of sleep. That regimen may be sorely tested before his tangles with Cox, Ervin & Co. on behalf of Richard Nixon are concluded...
Back in Houston, the Skylab 1 astronauts found that their own mission was far from over. They were allowed to meet only with a limited number of officials (who wore face masks in their presence). They also had to continue eating the same regimen of frozen, canned and dehydrated foods that they had aboard Skylab. Though they were allowed to go home to their wives in the evenings, their children had to move away from home temporarily. The 18 days of semi-isolation were ordered by doctors to shield the astronauts from the effects of earthly germs; any chance infection...
Ward W's regimen is rather like a crash course at Esalen. Privacy, leading as it can to evasions and delusions, is not esteemed. Public confessions are required. Severance admits to "23 years of alcoholic chaos, lost wives, public disgrace," indignities unspeakable, yet spoken. When his fellow patients unravel their histories, Severance listens intently. Few in Ward W can share anything like the scope and depth of his interests, but he must make his peace with them before he can return to his pregnant wife and small daughter...
There was no excess of cholesterol or other fatty substances in the blood. "We tried to keep him on a low-intake diet," Burkley says, "but he wasn't starved on any strict regimen as a true cardiac patient would be, because he was a normal individual during those years." He got some exercise-swimming, walking, an occasional gym workout-and he usually took an afternoon nap. His blood pressure was normal...
...bars, just a small window in the door. Farr ate there alone, away from the common thieves and muggers. ("The food is good. Starchy, but plentiful and pretty good.") He could not take exercise with fellow inmates, so he established a private regimen: 30 push-ups and 60 sit-ups three times...