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...horses. Ten years ago exactly, Secretariat spoiled horses for people. When he romped around the track, the trees swayed. A showy chestnut with three white stockings, he made it necessary to reissue Writer Joe Palmer's perfect description of Man o' War: "As near to a living flame as horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat. But by the time he had won the Derby, the Preakness and-by the length of a football field-the Belmont Stakes, that was forgotten. Racing had gone 25 years between Triple Crowns, making the feat...
...Flaming" is another favorite hacker activity. To flame means to speak rapidly or obsessively on a variety of subjects both significant and trivial. Hackers flame by typing opinions, gossip and mad rantings into a computer file reserved as a community bulletin board. Those wanting to know what is on the mind of computerniks all over campus can call up the board on their terminals and read the latest flame. One recent public notice contained a rosy farewell message from the head of C.M.U.'s Computer Science Department, who explained that he was leaving the university...
...rising U.S. public pressures for import restrictions. "Protectionism is a serious problem that needs a high degree of understanding by the American people," he said. "We need all the help we can get from other countries of the alliance not to take protectionist measures that would feed the flame...
...that badly behind it either. Joining him at Sotheby's in New York City last week for a one-man show of prints taken from his new book, Fifty Years of Style and Fashion, were two of his favorite models: Iman and Mick Jagger's current flame, Jerry Hall. Before the opening, Parkinson reports, he gave each model a piece of paper and asked her to name the one other woman she would like to be. Each wrote down the same answer: Dolly Parton. "No matter how beautiful a woman is," opines the photographer, "she always worries whether...
...while tilting at the bold new questions of the eighties and beyond. Hart leaves the old queries to faster. His economic program levels micro solutions helping individual workers and individual flame--an what are essentially macro problems. Freeing up investment funds and giving workers more skills can only work so far. Without an underlying boost in aggregate demand, few companies will care to invest those funds, and without an overall increase in job openings, the most intricate job training will not place the unemployed...