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Once he gets his manpower on campus, the soft-spoken Chesbro, 35, puts them through a wearing training regimen. Beginning in September, three months before the season opens, wrestlers work out three to four hours a day, concentrating on melting off every ounce of "Sub-Q-Fat"-their abbreviation for subcutaneous fat. That struggle continues through the season as wrestlers work to make their weight division before each match. Frequently they go without food for 18 hours before weigh-in, then stoke up in the five hours between weigh-in and match...
...unsettling emphasis to a certain kind of publicity skill. George Washington would have made a dull TV performer. As the first effective television President, Kennedy proved how important it was to be fast on his feet. This helped to set a demanding new standard that elevates flash over sub stance. The effect of television - which in one year can make an unknown face tiresomely overfamiliar - has been to disqualify able but uncharismatic men, and to make others (Humphrey and Muskie come to mind) glib parodies of their once more impressive selves...
...sub-committee, headed by historian C. Vann Woodward, cited potential violence and property damage as the reasons for their recommendations...
...sub-committee was formed following a disruption at an appearance by Stanford physicist William Shockley in October...
...government." Fiery young Mafiosi will be left to "man the switchboard and analyze the computer, and be snuffed out at last by a missing credit card." Everything is losing its edge, dissolving into "uni-state." Poor Homo Americanus, looking for clues to himself in the codes of his sub-tribes, is getting less and less help...