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...walnut horse so homely and cantankerous that he was gelded as a yearling heard the sweet cheers of a racetrack crowd for the first time in 17 years, and then he died of colic the next day at the age of 26. Kelso, the great-grandson of Man o' War, was fetched to Belmont in New York State the Saturday before last along with Forego, a younger pensioner similarly handicapped. The occasion was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a stake that Kelso won five years in a row (1960-64), when he was the horse of the year every...
...time-and-motion consultant. The richer he grows weeding out waste and inefficiency around the country, the clearer it becomes that time and motion are all he truly possesses. Daughter Jenny is a pediatrician who marries three times and buries herself in runny noses, diaper rashes and colic. There seems to be no line between her own assorted brood and her patients...
...races in California, Whittingham felt that he had the horse to show up the haughty Easterners once and for all. Before he could be entered in the $113,000 Woodward Stakes at New York's Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that Ack Ack had beaten with ease earlier in the season. Cougar II breezed home five lengths ahead of the best field the East could muster. Though Cougar II was dropped to third place for cutting...
Like many another metal, lead is a cumulative poison. The human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...
Only Three a Day. Painter's colic is rare now that the hazard of paints containing lead is recognized in industry. Lead poisoning in children-especially from age two to about five-persists, because even when they are not hungry, they will put anything into their mouths, including chips of paint that have flaked off window sills or radiators in old houses. Dr. J. Julian Chisolm Jr. of Johns