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Thus last week-for the 51st time -began the Saratoga yearling sales, considered by knowledgeable horsemen to be the Tiffany's of thoroughbred horse auctions.* Four evenings later, a total of 224 yearling thoroughbreds ($6,841,100 worth) had passed under the auctioneer's hammer for an average price of $30,541, an alltime Saratoga high...
...COURT-MARTIAL OF LT. CALLEY by Richard Hammer. 398 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...that too few Americans were fully aware of what really was established at his court-martial. The 45 days of testimony by 104 witnesses were indeed confusing, repetitious, and often contradictory. Yet it is difficult to believe that any reasonable man can now read New York Times Reporter Richard Hammer's expert though impassioned distillation of the trial proceedings and still feel that the six jurors -all combat veterans acting against their own instincts as professional soldiers-could have reached any conclusion other than the one they did. The conclusion: in the 1968 U.S. assault on the hamlet...
...little later, Scott was on his knees again, intentionally. Using a hammer, he chipped a large chunk off a big, lava-like boulder sitting on the rille's ledge. Then he tucked the piece under his arm like a football and galloped enthusiastically back to the rover. Scientists in Houston shared Scott's exuberance. He had apparently snared a valuable chunk of the moon's bedrock...
...their 17th month, might be approaching the 20-minute countdown. When the Big Four ambassadors meet this week in West Berlin's old Prussian High Court Building, they are expected to make it a marathon session that may last three days. Speculation was that they are ready to hammer out the last kinks in an "umbrella agreement" on the city's status. Such a breakthrough could not come at a more fitting moment: this week marks the tenth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall...