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...organization, John Glenn can take solace in figures. He is running a close second to the former Vice President, and each draws more support from Democrats and independent voters than all of the other contenders for their party's presidential nomination combined. But as the Democrats jostle and jockey on the hustings, the man they seek to unseat remains an elusive and increasingly formidable target. Ronald Reagan, ambling along at his own aw-shucks pace toward announcing for reelection, has perked up his poll ratings with a personal popularity that continues to outpace that of his policies...
First it was by one length, then five, then ten. Coming into the stretch, Jockey Ron Turcotte did not bother to go to the whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont...
...never heard a movie actor talk, never imagined a television screen. Technology kept bringing new transformations: long-playing records, high-speed cameras, videotape equipment. Not only arts changed but audiences as well. Local orchestras, opera, ballet and theater companies proliferated. So did the electronic babel (sitcom disc-jockey disco-rock singing commercial) that now seems an inescapable fact of life. In the age of the mass audience, more people could watch a Shakespeare play on TV than had ever seen it in all previous performances; more still watch network fare like Three's Company...
...kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod-a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from the dead on a butterfly-winged acrobatic bar to ask the doomed Jesus "Why you let the things you did get so out of hand...
...Chinese and Hong Kong flags would fly together, that the Hong Kong dollar would remain an international currency, and that the corps of civil servants who administer the city would be retained. In the course of the informal talks, China has even indicated that Hong Kong's Royal Jockey Club could continue its horse races, although "Royal" would of course have to be dropped from the club's title in a socialist society. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping promised last month that "no official will be sent from Peking to supervise or administer Hong Kong...