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...Regimen & Responsibility
...diet is a derivative of the long-popular, high-protein regimen, and was attributed last year to the medical department of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Air Academy medics deny all knowledge of it on the credible ground that drink is not part of the standard diet of air cadets. But San Francisco's Robert Cameron and his son Todd heard about it "from an Air Force pilot" and whipped up the book, written by five collaborators under the pseudonyms of Gardner Jameson and Elliott Williams...
...stops the campaign caravan to visit a local priest. At four o'clock every day he insists on drinking a large frappe and reading the Herald-Traveler. His whole life seems one long constitutional, and he lives it not as a mundane routine but as a stoic and invigorating regimen...
Part of that regimen is politics, and it is impossible to conceive of the man returning quietly to civilian life, mellowered by defeat. If he loses his adrenalin will force him to try again
Exiled in an isolated mansion with no liberty privileges, the dozen finalists dug in for one last hellish week of practice, practice, practice. All but the Russians chafed under the regimen. While Anton Kuerti, 28, most promising U.S. contender, kept the other tenants awake into the small hours slaving at the keyboard a minimum of twelve hours a day, the well-prepared Russian trio held their practice sessions to four hours at the most, then blithely played soccer and lounged on the sloping lawns. It was downright disconcerting. "To us Americans, that week was like jail," groaned Michael Ponti...