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...chronic hoof trouble-which forced him out of last year's Kentucky Derby and kept him inactive for much of this spring-Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser still would be more aptly named Buckmaker. In three seasons, the four-year-old son of Tom Fool has started 28 races, won 24 and earned $1,347,744-ranking him third on the alltime moneywinning list behind Kelso ($1,977,896) and Round Table ($1,749,869). Last year Buckpasser set a world record of 1 min. 32 sec. for the mile, and ran away with the voting for Horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Buckmaker | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four-year-old girl in the face. What the kids did not manhandle they made off with, including a number of turtles, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zoo: Loving Touch | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

Hayes assigns Andover's eleventh-graders stints in photography, painting and construction, uses the gallery's collection-rich in Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Ryder and Bellows-for instruction, and turns the students loose in Andover's four-year-old Arts and Communications Center. He spices his classroom endeavors with as many as 30 shows a year, most of them "teaching exhibits," ranging from didactic displays on industrial design to such far-out spectaculars as last spring's "Feelies Show." In the latter, students were first plunged into a coal-black room, forced to grope their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: How Much Rubbed Off? | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...first question should be, "Who was Charley Ross anyway?" In 1874, Charley was the fetching four-year-old son of a Philadelphia dry-goods merchant. On a drowsy July afternoon of that year, he (or so the author claims) became America's first known victim of a kidnaping for ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charley Who? | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Powell did not have enough litigation already, his third wife, Yvette Diago Powell, filed suit against him last week in Puerto Rico. She charged non-support of herself and their four-year-old son, asked $1,500 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Shoo on the Other Foot | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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