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...Stenciled on the back) swirled through a champagne party ($1 per glass) on the green-carpeted Astrodome floor. There were a few rounds of beautiful-people tennis (the Williams-Longet team beat Merv Griffin and Sandra Giles, a Riggs playmate). The 80-piece red-coated University of Houston Cougar band blared such anomalous songs as Jesus Christ, Superstar while comely majorettes did a Rockettes routine out front. Even Umpire Jerome Morton got into the act, wearing a modish gray velvet tuxedo and red ruffled shirt that the U.S.L.T.A. would surely never sanction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...automobile is the greatest friend nature ever had. Cars are affectionately named for animals (cougar, mustang, falcon, impala); gasolines keep engines clean; and there are seldom more than three vehicles on the road at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is There Intelligent Life on Commercials? | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

Like many others, the Children's Zoo in Des Moines has had a serious vandalism problem. There is no money to hire a night watchman, and trespassers have broken in to cut off a cougar's ear, steal a trained hawk and release penned deer. Director Robert Elgin finally worked out an ingenious way to police the grounds at no cost: let Becky do it. Becky is a 180-lb. lioness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lion in Wait | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...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 off one of his rivals on the rail, Whittingham was confident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trainer of the Year | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...grade-school dropout who earned more than $173,000 last year, Whittingham figures to have another banner year in 1972. He still has Cougar II, one of the top money winners last year ($416,022), as well as such top-rated horses as Daryl's Joy and Turkish Trousers. Though his horses have won more than $12 million over the years, Whittingham says: "I haven't got any special tricks. I just know my horses and treat them as individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trainer of the Year | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

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