Word: jockey
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...deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...
Much of the nation has. After his first appearance on The Gong show about three years ago, Langston, unemployed and broke, started a mini-national phenomenon with his bagged buffoonery. Imitators galore popped up: an Unknown Disc Jockey, an Unknown Used Car Salesman, a University of Georgia student who ran for class president (and won) as the Unknown Candidate...
...pragmatic but dedicated Communist who has the Kremlin's confidence, he is also a longtime advocate of economic reform. Olszowski is said to have been highly critical of Gierek's economic performance. According to Western intelligence sources, the heavy-set Olszowski also tried in the past to jockey himself into position to take over the party leadership. For that reason, Gierek shuffled his troublesome rival out of the Politburo last February and packed him off as Ambassador to East Germany. Olszowski's return to the Politburo deprives Gierek of what seemed his best guarantee of survival...
...editing has to be judicious, however, so that the show's spirit is retained. In Johnny Jones, for example, Adapter Alfred Uhry wisely kept Cohan's quaint jingoism. "You think I'd marry an heiress and live off her money?" asks Johnny (Thomas Hulce), a jockey who is in love with one. "What do you take me for? An Englishman?" And: "French pastry ain't worth 30? compared to American apple...
DIVORCED. Anita Bryant, 40, singer and Florida orange juice pitchwoman, who crusaded against homosexuals' civil rights and decried "disintegration of the American family"; and Bob Green, onetime disc jockey and her former manager; after 20 years of marriage, four children; in Miami. Bryant has the children, aged 10 to 16. "I failed as a wife," says she. "I don't want to fail as a mother...