Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer her three-week trial went on, the more it became apparent that she was less a pawn than a principal in the plot. Cousin Günter Sachs, himself known mainly as a playboy, blamed von Opel's predicament on an unhappy childhood and a latter-day regimen that included two bottles of vodka daily. So convinced of her guilt were the French judges who heard the case that they doubled the recommended five-year punishment...
...conquistador Hernando Cortes. "In the depths of this flaming well," he intoned, "we Mexicans have seen ourselves reflected in Tezcatlipoca's black mirror. Malinche emerged from those depths howling for human sacrifice to satisfy the god of fire." A physical fitness buff, he keeps in shape with a vigorous regimen that includes swimming, archery and javelin throwing. Mexico, in fact, has never had a President with such wide-ranging interests: he plays the guitar, loves to ride horses, and his bedroom is decorated with his own paintings. He has a reputation as an early rising hard worker?he avoids siestas...
Watching closely over Carter's regimen is Rear Admiral Lukash, 48, an ascetic-looking, genial Navy doctor. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Lukash has been on the White House medical staff since 1967, when he began helping to care for Lyndon Johnson. Gerald Ford promoted him to White House physician in 1974 and Carter decided to keep him in the post, which involves tending not only the First Family but the 1,300 members of the White House staff...
Carefully sheltered by her mother Jeanne, who works at a nearby tennis club, and her father George, a nuclear physicist, Tracy typically alternates a week on the tennis tour with two weeks of schoolwork and practice. That regimen allows for plenty of tournament play and an A average as well. "I just want my time at home to be normal," she says. Tracy has earned well in excess of $300,000 in the past year, so her $1-a-week allowance has been suspended. But she still must ask her mother for clothes money. Her older sister and two older...
Comrade Grishin should pay special heed to the likes of Alfred Mayes, 18, an affable light-middleweight boxer from St Louis. Mayes likes to have his outsize portable tape player blaring disco music when he skips rope, and he did not alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...