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...hard enough. But then came the crisis in Iran, and the President had to depend on his Vice President for much of the hard slogging of the primary campaigning. Now back in the good graces of Carter's inner circle, Mondale is looking forward eagerly to a strenuous regimen of four-day-a-week campaign swings, making slashing attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close...
Given such problems in communication, the visitors kept very much to the Intourist regimen when they first arrived -traveling to and from the Games or the city sights in the big-windowed Ikarus buses from Hungary that have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night...
Players usually spend the weeks before Wimbledon fine-tuning their games. Borg spent the weeks before the 1976 tournament overhauling the most difficult shot in the game. Two hours a day for 14 days, he did nothing but serve. That regimen so strained the muscles in his chest and abdomen that he played in pain throughout the tournament. But it worked. ; "The new serve was why I won Wimbledon the first time," says Borg. "The people in the crowd had been used to seeing me serve for years, and suddenly, here I was, serving so different. They could not believe...
Since she is now the country's leading gymnast, the Soviet press has naturally begun to refer to Nelli Kim as "Charming Nelli." When she pauses to chomp watermelon in the midst of an otherwise rigid training regimen, she fits that title, but Nelli and her coaches agree that she can often be much less than charming. The only thing that justifies her moods are the results. In Montreal four years ago, Kim not only won two individual gold medals but scored two all-but-unprecedented perfect tens -one in the floor exercise program and one in her specialty...
...lower and middle levels of bureaucracy, and she takes the nurses, supervisors, administrators and the people who fetch their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very refreshing: she is someone who writes about offices without ridicule, irony or condescension. She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath...