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After the match, Lornie Kuhle, Riggs' resident tennis partner and vitamin-pill dispenser, said: "It was like Bobby finally realized that the final exam was here and he hadn't studied for it." Riggs agreed: "It was a case of overconfidence and not preparing." He admitted to underestimating King's speed and agility, adding: "Whenever I thought I had the point won on our exchanges, she saved...
...circus trappings of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show-the chairs on the court, the pails of water, the poodles, the vitamin pills, the Hai Karate aftershave-have been gathered, and the carnival tents have been struck by Billie Jean King's rampaging racket...
...switching from its original garish, candy-striped restaurant design to a more subdued brown brick configuration) and for allegedly sabotaging American nutrition. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer warns that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides large amounts of fats and calories (557 for a Big Mac, 317 for a chocolate shake, 215 for a small order of fries) and contains almost no roughage...
Last week Riggs went into full training in San Diego, swearing off liquor and girls for the duration. He is in a regimen of roadwork and practice sets with his Boy Friday, Tennis Pro Lornie Kuhle. He is also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex...
Large doses of Vitamin C "may cut down on the severity of colds," he said. Only "one good study" has demonstrated barely significant improvement in the severity and duration of colds, Hegsted said. There is no evidence that Vitamin C prevents colds, he added...