Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical Arab states. The Saudis are also distrustful of the terms of the peace treaty itself. As Foreign Minister Prince Saud said early this month: "It is impossible to admit any settlement not based on the return of Jerusalem to its 1967 status as an Arab and Muslim city." Crown Prince Fahd took the same line when he declared during a visit to Paris last week: "We either live in Jerusalem, or we die for it . . . Our position is final...
...increasing number of studies suggest that the main danger of television may not be the message, but the medium itself, just looking at TV. In Bedford, Mass., Psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland and Peter Crown, a professor of television and psychology at Hampshire College, have attached electrodes to the heads of children and adults as they watched TV. Mulholland thought that kids watching exciting shows would show high attention. To his surprise, the reverse proved true. While viewing TV, the subjects' output of alpha waves increased, indicating they were in a passive state, as if they were "just sitting quietly...
...victory was a sweet ending to a long, troubled journey for Owner Harry Meyerhoff, Trainer Bud Delp and Jockey Franklin. They had left the friendly and familiar confines of Maryland tracks last winter to campaign Spectacular Bid at Triple Crown prep races in Florida and Kentucky. As newcomers to big-time racing, they quickly found themselves snubbed by the Thoroughbred establishment. Meyerhoff, a retired millionaire builder from Baltimore, and his wife were not even invited to the traditional ball before the Flamingo Stakes, despite the fact that their colt was heavily favored and indeed won the race the following...
While the Triple Crown was being fought out in the U.S., a talented young man who knows all about the demands and rewards of the top American races for three-year-olds was riding to new success 3,000 miles away. Jockey Steve Cauthen, still only 19 and last year's Triple Crown winner with Affirmed, was finishing first consistently against the best riders in Europe...
...biggest triumph came earlier this month at Newmarket, England, in the race known as the 2,000 Guineas, the first in the English version of the Triple Crown. He urged Tap on Wood from the middle of the field to win by a head. It was a brilliant ride aboard a 20-to-1 shot, and left Cauthen exultant: "I was thrilled, as thrilled as if I'd won the Kentucky Derby...