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...annals of horse racing history, We could only find a single occurrence in which the jockey without any doubt had a positive influence. On August 14, 1927, in Saratoga Springs an untried colt named King Tut froze up at the starting gate at the annual running of the Governor's Cup. Despite all efforts to make Tut run, including the offering of sugar cubes, the horse stood, solid as a statue...
...inauspicious start, the event Newsweek called "a rare combination of journalism, history, and live teledrama." There was David Frost speaking to millions of Americans coast-to-coast--or rather, his lips were moving, but no sound was coming out. For a moment we froze, remembering the silence that marked the first Carter-Ford debate last fall, and other gaps in other tapes. But at last the audio portion of our program was restored to us; Frost saying,"...had no control over anything. Richard Nixon and Watergate in a moment...
...said something outrageously funny to a friend sitting across from him; two undergraduates who had been listening nearby with carefully disguised interest broke into laughter despite themselves, squinting at each other as if to say, "who is this guy?" When Bruce turned to share the laugh with them, they froze and went back to their food...
...this agreement is called -sharply limited the deployment of defensive anti-ballistic missiles. The purpose: to prevent ABMs, which can destroy offensive missiles, from disrupting-or, as the experts put it, "destabilizing" -the mutual-assured-destruction balance. A second part of SALT I, dealing with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS); the Soviet arsenal was set at 2,358 ICBMS and SLBMS. The Russians were allowed a quantitative superiority, as well as the right to keep 308 mammoth launchers (unmatched by anything...
...Chrysler laid off some 58,000 workers in Michigan and Ohio. In Cleveland alone, about 10,000 laborers were idle. The cutbacks forced the closing of schools in 245 downstate Illinois communities. In Milwaukee, which has had a record 21 days of subzero weather, water mains burst or froze, creating extreme fire-fighting hazards. Amtrak canceled trains on eight major routes out of Chicago -and sent 25 cars down to New Orleans to thaw out. However, the cold did bring some blessings. Street crime was down, and three gunmen foolish enough to hold up the Cleveland Trust Co. were quickly...