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...track and to track people. Cauthen often leaves his bachelor's apartment in Floral Park, Long Island, before dawn and drives his 1977 Mercury Cougar to the track, whether or not he is scheduled to work a horse. He breakfasts in the track kitchen, then kills the hours between daylight and early afternoon post time in the jockeys' quarters. He changes into white breeches, boots and T shirt and studies the Daily Racing Form to dope out the day's competition. Cauthen also spends a good deal of time with his agent, Lenny Goodman, a shrewd, showy horseman up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Please listen carefully to what I'm going to say. It may sound hard to grasp, but it's as clear as daylight, really. And it's something that would bring about the one real revolution in this world of ours, if people would only take it in. Try to call up a picture of your father's death, of the agony on his face as they were tearing out his tongue. Think of the blood streaming from his mouth, and recall his screams, like a tortured animal (Pause). Now think of Caligula (Pause). Now try to understand...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Tripping Through Tragedy | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Most of the aforementioned fields are available during daylight hours, so head over to Cahaly's to pick up those fabled plastic bats and balls and tell them Sixto Lezcano sent...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: When a Young Man's Fancy Turns to Whiffleball | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...scent. In the place of any real character development. Greene peppers his narrative with the kind of jaded aphorisms that sound wise and deep when most Greene novels are read, in the drowsy last hour before going to sleep, but that measure up disappointingly shallow in broad daylight...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where the Grass Is Never Greener | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...work, but if pickets are there, I'll go home," said Claude Profitt, 47. Said Ken Hager: "I drive a long ways every day before daylight. How is the National Guard gonna protect a miner on these West Virginia roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Decision Time in Oceana | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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