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...liberated magazines that have been started up to steal away her 1,700,000 circulation. "The more competition, the better. After all, the pressing question is how to get through the night." Are the 600,000 women who grabbed up Playgirl's first beefcake issue a new breed of female? "No, women are still worried about self-improvement. I throw in the sex, but I try to make Cosmo as much like the Reader's Digest...
...owner. After running her prize thoroughbred in perhaps two more races, she will retire Secretariat to stud no later than Nov. 15. Then the new Triple Crown winner will try to live up to the seemingly impossible slogan on the buttons worn by Mrs. Tweedy's entourage: BREED MORE SECRETARIATS...
...theory that you can breed a brilliant sire of young speedballs with the daughter of a line of gallant and tireless plodders and thereby produce a superhorse may be entirely wrong. Indeed, many people think that all breeding theories are wrong. "What you really need to get a good foal," one expert has said, "is a male horse, a female-and a lot of luck...
...value in stud was set a few months ago at just over $6,000,000-a price arrived at by finding that 32 people were willing to pay $190,000 each, even before he won as a three-year-old, for the privilege of being able to breed one mare to him a year for the rest of his life. He might bring half again as much today...
...even the most talented brokers cannot make much money for clients during a deep market slide-and Perot admits he has yet to come up with a formula for putting the policy into effect. Meanwhile, he is moving ahead on other fronts. In order to create a new breed of brokers for his firms, he has established a $14 million-a-year training center in Los Angeles. So far, it has graduated 72 students; a new class of 600 will start the six-month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like...