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Almost everything but the mannequins themselves seemed to have come off a ranch. Ponyskin and calf were favorites. Designer John Weitz cut a pair of pants out of saddle leather, lined a coat of the same fabric with a horse blanket. Adele Simpson put some of her models in outfits with matching boots, either knee-or ankle-height, all high-heeled. No one did anything with an armadillo...
...whip to his left hand and whacked the big red colt some more. Gobbling up ground with his mammoth stride (estimated at 28 ft.), Candy Spots drew out, flashed across the finish line 3½ lengths ahead of Chateaugay. In the winner's circle, grooms draped a blanket of black-eyed Susans over Candy Spots, and Eddie Arcaro thumped Shoemaker on the back. "Revenge is sweet, isn't it?" he asked. Said Shoemaker: "It sure is sweet. It sure...
...more valuable person to the rest of mankind than is a Negro drunkard; and a Negro scientist is worth more than a white rapist; these cases of merit are clear. Our trouble is that as the distinctions blur, so do our judgments, and we use aids of blanket categorization rather than individuality. Until our standard becomes one of the individual as an individual, our problem will remain; and, pessimistically, perhaps the greatest difficulty will lie with the white liberals, who are blind to their own prejudice, that of treating each black person as a Negro. In helping...
...Arizona attorney general) Robert Morrison, 53, raised $1,500,000. But merely getting born took all but $100,000 of that. By the time the paper produced its first issue-which came out eight hours late-the Journal was already suffering from malnutrition. Eugene Pulliam, whose two conservative dailies blanket Phoenix,* contemptuously ignored the newcomer. And, after a while, so did many of the people who had shared Bob Morrison's conviction that a liberal paper could survive in Gene Pulliam's desert fief. From a starting 50,000, circulation dropped to 20,000. Ad accounts evaporated...
...wants to abolish many blanket laws and consider each situation individually. An example of what he calls a "bad regulation" is the prohibition of parking on the left side of all one-way streets. "In some places this is ridiculous," he asserts. If a one-way street is broad enough, then parking should be legal on both sides...