Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field, Namath's transition from Broadway to Freeway Joe was simpler. He lives in a rented house in fashionable Belmont Shores. By night, he is apt to turn up at local Los Angeles area watering holes like Charley Brown's in Huntington Beach. Robertson, who often joins him in these excursions, testifies to Joe Willie's continuing ability to attract followers "like fleas...
...many household operations, however, microcomputers are clearly inferior to simpler and less expensive devices. Like fingers. Michael Mastrangelo finds it easier to make his own tea than program a computer for the task. Says David Korman, who has an IMSAI 8080 in his Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list...
...from a photograph of a 1912 wood-frame plane, flew up from St. Louis with his wife, stopping every 50 miles to refuel; Gail Turner, a schoolteacher who spent a year building her shocking-pink Fly Baby in her living room, took five days to fly it east from Belmont, Calif...
...light racing experience somewhat handicaps judgment, as does the lack of first-class competition. He has seldom shown the scorching times of Secretariat, nor does he appear to have Big Red's hunger for the killer win, as in Secretariat's unforgettable 31-length victory in the Belmont. Slew seems content to put out enough to win and no more...
Rich Reward. Seattle Slew will take a few months off. In the fall, fans and handicappers should have a chance to judge his greatness when he goes back to work at Belmont in the rich handicap and weight-for-age races like the Woodward and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. There is a good possibility of a dream race against Forego, the seven-year-old gelding that has been Horse of the Year for the past three years and is-unless Slew can beat him-the best horse now running. If Slew stays sound, his owners insist, they will race...