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...Legend of Lobo. In 1897, according to one educated estimate, about 500,000 head of cattle and sheep were slaughtered by wolves in the U.S. West. Understandably, the ranchmen waged all-out war against wolves, and toward the end of the last century thousands of the bloody brutes were trapped or shot or poisoned every year. But no matter how many were killed, there was always the big one that got away. In New Mexico his name was Lobo, and Lobo was a brute half again as big as he had any natural right to be, with a roar like...
...only foreign horse with a following was France's Match II. Beau Purple's trainer, Allen Jerkens, said he was worried: "That French colt-he's a brute." Racing exclusively in Europe, where stakes horses get fewer chances to run and purses are generally smaller than in the U.S., the muscular bay had already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin...
...face? As he stares, strangely moved, he stumbles against a big wooden cross, which almost falls on his back. Later Barabbas follows Christ to the Place of a Skull, where Christ dies the death that Barabbas, but for the grace of God, would surely have died instead. "Good," the brute mutters guiltily. "He's dead, the same as any other man. That...
...alternative to reckless bravery, brute stamina is acceptable. The idea is to accumulate a staggering number of "events" in the course of a day. A lawyer friend visiting the Robert Kennedys gained favorable attention by participating in five events before breakfast; he had reached 14-from trampoline-jumping to eating a sandwich with sand in it-before the day was over. Astronaut John Glenn piled up favorable mention by bicycle riding, swimming, playing touch football and baseball, falling into the bay while water-skiing with Jackie, and barely ducking a crashing boom after he hesitated for a moment in carrying...
...once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...