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Tito's own physical stamina is doubtless the main reason for his survival, but another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate...
...meters, but to do this-my God! Equating it to running, it is doing the impossible." Said Bob Mathias, winner of the Olympic decathlon in 1948 and 1952: "It's spectacular. He has to have the sprinter's ability, plus the lung capacity and the stamina for the longer distances. He is just a super athlete...
ERIC AND BETH HEIDEN. In the final weeks before the Olympics, the U.S. Speed Skating Team established a training camp in Davos, Switzerland. There, on one of the world's fastest speed-skating rinks, they churned through one exhausting workout after another, honing the technique and building the stamina required for what may be the most physically demanding of all sports. Few living things can travel a mile faster than the men and women who, hunched over their skates like broken-backed dolls, swoop around an oval of ice at more than 30 m.p.h. Each stroke is a study...
...some respects can hardly be denied. "The energy of the long distance runner is essential to the conduct of the presidency," says Leonard Garment, a New York attorney who used to be an aide to President Nixon. "It's a job that calls for that kind of stamina." Yet other qualities may be slighted by the primary process: experience, acumen, political leadership, an ability to organize coalitions and to work out compromises. Says Mike Thompson, a Republican state committeeman in Florida: "Franklin Roosevelt couldn't be nominated today. A Bruce Jenner could beat...
...that the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates securities transactions. He also believes that most functions of philanthropy should be taken over by the Government. Few taxpayers will agree that the U.S. needs another bureaucracy or more federal spending. For all the book's flaws, anyone who has the stamina and sharp eyesight to get through 459 pages closely set in tiny type will rightly demand to know more about what his favorite charity is doing with his hard-earned dollars before he writes another check...