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...epic tale of the tortoise and the hare the hare slept when obscenely confident of the race only to be over-taken in the stretch by the tortoise who did not give up the tussle till the last line had been crossed. Betty Canter (right) and Eva Stuart have taken off from their summer school studies to help the Republican tortoise in the race for the nomination for the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rocky Summer | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Burt, who was voted best horse judge in the U.S. last year. "As we get more citified, there's more demand for release, for open spaces. Now that people can afford horses, it's bound to grow." Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new country-even in relatively built-up areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Return of the Horse | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...rise during the year about $7 billion to $80 billion. Were peace to be negotiated in Viet Nam, the economy would swing to a vastly different peacetime basis. In the event of a broader war, not only would defense outlays increase even more, but inflation would switch from a canter to a gallop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Continued Uneasy Prosperity | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passes. An informal canter through a "narrative panorama" of the U.S. of the recent past. Historian-Journalist Dos Passes, having suffered ideological tumbles on both the left and right, now has come to rest on a distrust of all systems that claim to improve mankind at the cost of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month to $51 and $65 for a double, including two meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On to the Outer Islands | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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