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...fearful grind who studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged his old spartan regimen for a warm family life with his wife and two children in a Regency-style house in Belgravia...
...demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere...
...Long extolled as a tonic for lazy muscles, bicycling is now being boosted as a treatment for a far more serious disability. Using a rigid cycling regimen, says Boston's Dr. Harry Bass, he has been able to help patients afflicted with emphysema, a respiratory ailment that gradually impairs breathing and kills as many as 20,000 Americans a year...
...Cripple. Far from making a "cardiac cripple" of their patient, as so many doctors were still doing, Ike's physicians advised him to get all the exercise he could. He did not overeat, and he cut down on hard fats and sweets. This regimen kept Eisenhower's arteries working well for eight full years. Then came his second and third heart attacks, in 1965. Again, Ike recovered astonishingly well for a man then 75 years old. But more episodes were predictable...
Like most members of the group, Janis cannot read a note of music. "We're not dispassionate professionals," Janis explains. "We're passionate and sloppy. I'm untutored native folk talent -I like that phrase, it's so pretentious." Her only regimen is to stay away from cold beer before singing and she refuses to worry about the punishment her rasping style inflicts on her vocal cords. When friends urge her to hold back in order to preserve her voice, she asks: "Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound...