Word: crowns
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...race for two-year-olds-earned him the Eclipse Award as the season's best juvenile colt. From a barn on the Belmont backside, he trained for his victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. On the eve of the Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown, Owner Mickey Taylor said: "This is our gym. Slew has the home-court advantage." Last week Seattle Slew galloped around his gym and came home breezing, the tenth winner of the Triple Crown and the first undefeated Crown Champion in American racing history...
Seattle Slew thus entered a small enclosure of racing royalty that includes Gallant Fox, War Admiral, Count Fleet, Citation, Secretariat. And with a particular distinction: alone among the Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew has a perfect record. The Belmont Stakes was his ninth trip to the starting gate and his ninth run to the wire as a winner. In the week before the Belmont, there was little doubt among backstretchers that Seattle Slew would complete his sweep. Secretariat Owner Penny Tweedy Ringquist, whose Spirit Level took his shot at Slew and lost, said: "Seattle Slew is head and shoulders above...
Trainer Billy Turner prepared Seattle Slew for the Triple Crown quest with a cool deliberation that caused more second-guessing than usual along the backstretch. He purposely raced him little, harnessing his show of speed to guard against the fatal misstep that stalks the big, fragile-legged thoroughbreds. Slew's schedule was matched with equally undemanding workouts. Horsemen were quick to point out that he was slightly "short"-not in peak form-for the Kentucky Derby. After that race, Cruguet dawdled briefly up the track before riding into the winner's circle, because Slew was winded. Said...
...some members of the Class have swung moderately or radically to the left, the fact that slightly more than 50 per cent of the Class voted for former president Gerald R. Ford indicates that others have grown or remained conservative. Alan R. Trustman '52, author of The Thomas Crown Affair, says that spending years as a lawyer and businessman dealing with "appallingly powerful" government officials and bureaucratic regulatory agencies converted him from "a campus radical" to a member of the 1964 Massachusetts Draft Goldwater committee. George S. Ames '52, now a bank investment officer, enlisted in the armed forces, served...
Even with all these emissaries winging to and fro, Carter's own diplomatic efforts last week were the most significant. He played host to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd, who brought the welcome message that his country would not use its oil leverage to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East. Carter also had soothing words for the Saudis. Emerging from White House talks with Fahd, Carter declared that he and his guest had "no disturbing differences at all" on mutual issues, including a Middle East settlement-a remark that must have jolted Israeli diplomats. Carter bruised...