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Nothing riles California Horse Trainer Charles Whittingham more than the old clubhouse canard that West Coast thoroughbreds are not worth their oats until they have proved themselves on Eastern tracks. With Ack Ack, winner of seven straight stakes races in California, Whittingham felt that he had the horse to show up the haughty Easterners once and for all. Before he could be entered in the $113,000 Woodward Stakes at New York's Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that Ack...
Indeed he had. At year's end Ack Ack was named Horse of the Year, the first time that a thoroughbred has won the honor without competing in the East. And last week, after finishing as the top money-winning trainer for the second year in a row (total 1971 earnings: $1,730,170), Whittingham was voted Trainer of the Year...
...Indian air force had knocked out the Pakistanis' runways and, out side of the limited range of ack-ack guns, Indian planes could fly as freely as if they were at an air show. I was surprised at the extent to which India could do no wrong in the eyes of the Bengalis. They showed me through rocketed houses where about 15 people had died. Several Bengalis whispered that it must have been a mistake, and I heard no one cursing the Indians...
...motto and its boast. In the last 30-odd years, much of that time working for LIFE, Duncan has been nearly everywhere and done nearly everything-from catching monster squid in the ocean off Peru to recording the home life of Picasso. He has been shot at by Japanese ack-ack gunners, Korean snipers and Vietnamese rocketeers. All this is documented in a retrospective show now at the Nelson-Atkins Galleries in Kansas City, Mo., which happens to be his home town...
...soft-spoken by nature, more so than most other people." he says. "Not too many things move me to the point of taking drastic action. I'm quite willing to accept things as they come and make the most of it." Johnson's 'ack of impassioned ego nearly swayed him to preclude the possibility of attending Harvard after graduation from high school. A native of Framingham, he had pretty much settled upon the University of Massachusetts as his choice...