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...chance to narrow down the Derby field in the Wood Memorial in New York in mid-April, that race had to be split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cavalry Charge | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Flip-Flop. Win or lose, Sparling decided to stick with Nixon and issued a surprise invitation to the President to enter the fight himself. Nixon spent a day whooping up Republican support in the safe rural areas, acting at times as though he were the candidate while his host stood aside and listened. Nixon apparently helped Sparling a bit as a campaigner-but he had already lost him the race as an issue. Traxler took 51.4% of the vote, a startling flip-flop from the results in 1972, when the Republicans captured 59.3% of the ballots in the district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A Message for the President | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...Early in "We" Shapiro quotes me claiming I was ahead of my time, that I originated student activism, and so on: that is he makes me sound like a real jerk. This is the "communists are megelomaniacs" bait. However a little later on, Shapiro does a complete flip-flop and, as if he'd never hinted I was so self-centered, says: "Jared strongly dislikes talking about himself." Shapiro then goes on to attack me for this, saying I've dissolved my personality into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions, and so on. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE KNEW WE WERE RIGHT | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...contestants were going to flip for the first game of the final action, but John wanted to play last anyway, so the idea of the toss was thrown out. The final game began...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 4/26/1974 | See Source »

Variety, which is the spice of life, is also the spice of this thin treasure chest. There are old southern ballads, drinking songs and nursery rhymes. To flip through the pages is to feel like a child in a candy store on a lazy spring afternoon...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Ring-a-Ding-Ding | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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