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There are plenty of other restaurants neglected here due to lack of space; for now, chalk them up to experimentation...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Everything Happens in the Square | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...Jockey Club. Flat racing has become far more popular and populous since then, and Secretariat started out with about 25,000 contemporaries, all potential competitors. Further, the three major races, bunched within five weeks, present different problems in terms of length and race track surfaces. Yet, the chalk players have such confidence in Secretariat that a $2 bet will likely fetch no more than $2.10 or $2.20 if he wins at Belmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...membership in the U.N.-a move that would coincide with East Germany's application. In a party caucus, Barzel won support for C.D.U. opposition to the treaty, but lost narrowly on his advocacy of a yes vote for U.N. membership. At that point, said a participant, "he turned chalk white." Muttering something about "consequences for the leadership," Barzel walked out of the meeting. Next morning he resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Barzel's Farewell | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Someone had copied a textbook description of Kathryn's problem on the blackboard: Mongolism (Down's Syndrome)--Educable or Trainable. IQ range 20-60. Low perceptive abilities, low motor control." Kathryn spelled out her name in chalk below her definition...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Vegetables on the Baby Market | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

...Alert, the painting that stands at the entrance to the exhibit, demonstrates the original ideas executed at their best, with the edging strokes well defined, scaled and composed, and the gradation of the color field maintaining a lush, breathing "all-over-ness." But when the borders are reduced to chalk lines in the outer inch of the painting, they tend to slide down into the narrow recess between canvas and metal frame, and let the color field dissipate back into a flat canvas flatly painted instead of the ambiguous thing we recognize as a painting...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: To the Edge and Back | 4/21/1973 | See Source »

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