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Virtually all available evidence supports an end to the continued use of jockeys in thoroughbread racing. In one oft-discussed event at Pimlico, Fla., in 1959, the palamino Soft Knight, an odds-on favorite to garner the roses, failed even to make the gate because his rider was stuck in traffic on the Florida Turnpike...
Past Vice Presidents would be amazed and envious of Walter Frederick Mondale. Here is a Veep not only exercising power but reveling in it, surrounded by scurrying aides and history in the making. In the job that one of his 41 predecessors (John Nance Garner) compared unfavorably to a pitcher of warm spit, Mondale claims to be having the time of his life. He is a top adviser who is consulted, listened to and liked by the President: One measure of his closeness with his boss is their good-natured exchange of gibes. At the Gridiron Dinner, Mondale remarked...
...considerably richer than most of the mighty or the flighty he interviews. Though he refers to his corporate conglomerate as "my cottage industry," Paradine,* Ltd. (the name, not incidentally, almost rhymes with paradigm) grosses an estimated $20 million a year. In addition to the $1 million he expects to garner from his Nixon interviews, he hopes to get a few farthings from his glossy Cinderella movie musical, The Slipper and the Rose; an eight-part TV series, Crossroads of Civilization, which is being shot on a $2.5 million budget in Iran; and Nessie, a $7.5 million sci-fi extravaganza...
...coach Bob Scalise has had to shuffle his units all spring. He has had to make do without graduated 1976 regulars McCall, Bruce Bruckmann, Gilles Whalen, and Andy Gellis. Mike Faught, exiled to the bench as a reserve attackman in the early going, is the only middie to garner as many as ten points. Forbush, who connected eight times last year, is still without a goal this time around. Bobby Mellen, who got a goal a game in 1976, has been limited to half that this spring, and Gordie Nelson, a high-scoring attackman early this season, has gone...
Married. Herbert W. Armstrong, 84, former adman turned minister who founded the Worldwide Church of God, now headed by his son Garner Ted Armstrong; and Ramona Martin, 39, a secretary to a church official; both for the second time; in Tucson, Ariz...