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Ballet Lessons. "I like to work with animals," explained Foreman recently after tossing his Doberman, Stocky, into the swimming pool and riding his aging mare, Lady, around his backyard corral. "Some day I'll have as many dogs as you can count," he says. Considering the sort of dogs he buys, that could come to quite a sum. This summer Foreman paid $27,000 for yet another prizewinning German shepherd...
...means to have it for an identity, and for a kind of bludgeon. He subsidizes his brother, but he does it with disdain, just as he acquires his property -as much an assertion as an investment. Quixotically, Buddy offers his grandfather, who tends a poor garden in his backyard, any plot he wants. But the old man refuses. He is fond of Buddy, but he is well on to him. Beautiful as it is, the land was badly got, and so for him will remain fallow...
...martinis and dropped, at least temporarily, his hobby of snorkeling and taking underwater photographs near his vacation home in St. Croix. He still swims daily in the pool behind his home in Westgate, Md., and plays boccie, an Italian bowling game that he learned in Rome, on his backyard court. But most of his time is now spent in the White House only a beep away from the President...
...Your article concerning the deterioration of the St. Bernard [July 29] should have mentioned that inbreeding intensifies both good and bad qualities. It is clear that most of the offending animals are either products of backyard breeders without knowledge or regard for quality, or of puppy mills that breed indiscriminately to satisfy demand. Inbreeding is not in itself damaging. The critical factor is who practices...
...with Haig. Ford's staff members had been instructed to say nothing about the crisis, but some began to talk more openly about Nixon's resignation. "From any rational evaluation, it is bound to come," said a senior aide. Ford knew it too. That evening, he stood in his backyard looking at his swimming pool. "I really hate to leave this pool," he said wistfully...