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Appraising the swollen cattle as they weighed in, Henry Astor allowed as how he had bought "a fine herd." The next morning he looked out over a group of scrawny, dehydrated creatures. "I have been sold watered stock!" he bellowed, and Wall Street gained a new term for swindle...
...first woman to quit. "I rode a rocket of unprecedented opportunity," she writes. But two years of prodding a herd of jock journalists led to the discovery that "there was nothing I wanted to do less than spend 80 hours a week administering a staff of 59 men and one woman in producing three editions...
...second wife, Turner lives in a penthouse atop CNN headquarters in downtown Atlanta. But he spends an increasing portion of his time at his various retreats: two plantations in South Carolina and Florida and a ranch in Montana, where he goes fly-fishing and plans to keep a herd of buffalo. "He's much mellower now," says an associate. "He doesn't yell at people." Turner puts it differently: "I am maturing. That's better than aging. You enjoy different things." One thing he enjoys that hasn't changed: keeping the TV industry guessing just what he'll do next...
...doesn't even drive 56 m.p.h. She didn't even know about this until it was a done deal." A more serious complaint about Day's techniques has been lodged by environmentalists who believe that wild horses ought to be just that -- wild. "They're nothing but a big herd of domestic horses," says Donna Ewing, president of the Illinois-based Hooved Animal Humane Society and a former colleague of Hyde's. Mustang Meadows, Ewing charges, is "another ploy by BLM to eliminate the wild horse. Hyde and Day are cattlemen, and who has been the biggest enemy of horses...
...scoffs at such criticism. Mustang-management techniques like "herd- behavior modification," he claims, are essential. "Nobody in the world," he boasts, "has ever managed wild horses on this scale...