Word: roadworker
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NEXT morning Dominguin was up soon after 8, to drink his coffee and read the newspaper accounts of his arrival. Then, though he hates exercise, he went out for some roadwork, to get used to the altitude. After that, he was driven to the Plaza Mexico, the world's biggest bullfight arena, which he had never seen. He stamped over the sand, looking for pitfalls, and paced off the distance from the center of the ring to the barrier. Then he went to look at the bulls, the biggest and best Mexico could provide. Someone asked...
...first round of Wimbledon got under way this week, the austere ways of the nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest." But even Patty and Larsen were buckling down with the other seven U.S. entries to the routine of roadwork and practice they will need if they hope to get past the wise old crocodiles...
Fight week or not, Robinson and Papa Wiley are up each morning at 6 a.m., to pound out four to six miles of roadwork along the shady bridle paths of the Bois de Boulogne. Three times a week Sugar's gaudy Cadillac winds into a narrow courtyard off the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis for a 3 p.m. workout in the Central Sporting Club, where Sugar gets seriously down to work: three minutes of shadow boxing; six rounds of boxing, two with each of three sparring partners; three minutes with the body bag, and three with the light punching...
...good deal of his time holed up in his room, alone, reading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s The Age of Jackson. Despite the convivial atmosphere of the convention, he sternly denied himself lunches (he struggles religiously to keep his weight at 185 lbs.-at one time he did daily roadwork to reduce). He turned down all invitations to visit bars, nightclubs or gambling joints (at 54, he has yet to touch either alcohol or tobacco...
Most jockeys are slaves to scales. As riders soar towards the 110 Ib. danger line, out come sweatboxes and rubber suits for roadwork under a broiling sun. Some live on black coffee, cigarets and an occasional graham cracker. At 27, tall by jockey heights (5 ft. 2¼ in.), Ted Atkinson needs none of these. His average weight (stripped...