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...Scottsdale, Ariz. His Miss America is a white Arab mare listed unromantically on the program as "Lot No. 1 -Fantazja." Other ingénues should be so lucky. After 17 minutes of brisk bidding, Fantazja sells for a record $450,000. By show's end 31 Nichols-bred Arabians have been knocked down for a total of $2,316,000. Horses are a beguiling pastime for Nichols, who has loved them since childhood and bred Arabians since he could afford to. "This isn't life or death," he explains. "It's based on pleasure...
...broad experience in foreign affairs, including his service as head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Peking. To have headed the CIA, championing its cause when so many critics were clobbering it, is now an unanticipated political plus. Finally, Bush, too, has changed, shedding his New England-bred modesty and campaigning with the zest of a man willing to boast of his past and proclaim his future: "I can feel it in my bones. I'm going to be President...
...born to immigrant parents around the turn of the 20th century. Denied a college education by her doting but traditional father, she is matched to an accountant with a Sephardic pedigree and a prim nature that denies her sensuality through 40 years of marriage. Four children are born and bred amidst a welter of domesticities. Passions are expended in the composition of herbaceous borders, the concoction of raspberry tarts and the preparation of potions of cocoa laced with rum and chocolate shavings. Yet Ariadne moves briskly through this classic obstacle course. And why not? She was named for the Greek...
...Exceller, a horse he bought for $25,000, later earned more than $1.5 million in prize money. After Hunt became the first American to win both the French and English derbies, in 1976, Baron Guy de Rothschild, president of the French Breeders Association, restricted many French races to horses bred in European Community countries...
...bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have abandoned the land to jam into the already swollen cities in hope of sharing in a peace-bred boom. Thus unemployment is soaring at a time when inflation is hovering above...