Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anne Henning, a cheery, curly-haired blonde who never travels without her lucky Snoopy button and a large supply of peanut butter, does not miss the social life that is ruled out by her training regimen. Says she: "There are lots of boys in the training group too, you know." Dianne Holum, a fiercely dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such...
Never one for warming up before performances ("I don't want to leave the best part of me back in the dressing room"), Beverly has no fussy regimen for protecting her voice. The mere sight of her casually munching an apple between entrances would be enough to give most sopranos throat constriction for days. Stage fright is unknown to her; well-wishers, including many young people, throng her dressing room before as well as after a performance, and a relaxed Beverly makes small talk and long-distance phone calls right up until curtain time. "She has a completely unusual degree...
...team -with Bob Lutz, his partner at the University of Southern California. To become a topflight singles player, Smith needed to speed up his ability to cover the court. "I was a high jumper in high school, not a runner," he says. Nonetheless, after putting himself through a daily regimen of exercises and wind sprints, he says, "I'm now nearly as fast as Pancho Gonzales, who's still the fastest big man playing tennis...
Granted, the Nash training regimen is much the same. In fact, veteran oarsman Luther Jones quit the squad last fall because of it. But on at least three occasions, he has given interviews which have been every bit as cautious, as understated, and as modest, as those for which Parker has become widely respected...
...Elizabeth Taylor's crash program for getting her amplitude into shape for hot pants is said to have included a regimen of grapefruit juice, steak and vitamin B. The new, attenuated Taylor left London last week with Husband Richard Burton for a holiday in Switzerland and the U.S. Burton, who is taking a percentage rather than a salary for his soon to be released film Villain, then plans to begin "hovering," as he puts it, "over the box office return like a Welsh bird of prey...