Word: handler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, State approached the game convinced that it could end the Bruins' winning streak at 78 (leaving State with a string of 30 victories). Burleson, with a 5-in. height advantage over Walton, seemed capable of neutralizing the U.C.L.A. star. David Thompson, a superb outside shooter, ball handler and rebounder, promised to shut off U.C.L.A.'S dangerous forward, Keith Wilkes...
...members had come as freshmen, that change was a direct result of the protest in which they had participated. Yet just one year after the Class of '72 bid Harvard farewell Pusey's successor--the man who presumably had inherited the job because of his reputation as a crisis handler, one he had earned as dean of the Law School during the '69 strike--threatened to wipe out the reforms of 1969 by encouraging the return of ROTC...
...crisis-handler fashion, Bok quietly appointed a committee in May 1972 to study the controversy. And its report, issued in January, lit a new match under the Black Rock debate, which had been smouldering quietly since the previous Spring...
...usual ration of hay disappears. Many animals become edgy, difficult to handle. Secretariat is so calm that just before the Derby he lay down for a refreshing 90-minute snooze. He did the same thing just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat's hand. A stallion on the loose...
...SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL by Hans Handler. Photographs by Erich Lessing. 272 pages. McGraw-Hill. $29.95. In 1580 the Habsburgs began importing strong, intelligent and graceful horses from the Iberian Peninsula to the town of Lippiza. Hans Handler traces the history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses have always been trained, down through the centuries to its present site in Vienna. Erich Lessing's photographs are no substitute for watching the massed horses moving to the strains of Mozart, but this book is a monument to the disciplined beauty that classical horsemanship can achieve...