Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure of this impatience that Steve Forbes, as unlikely a jockey as we are ever likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far as he has is uncertain. Even less clear is whether he has the staff, the steadiness and steel to switch from quirky joyrider to formidable contender...
...Disc-jockey, T.V. commentator, radio talk show host and, of course, Pulitzer Prize winning author Studs Terkel amused and amazed an audience of more than 200 at the ARCO Forum last night...
DIED. ALISON STEELE, 58, disc jockey; of cancer; in New York City. "Come fly with me" was Steele's classic invitation, first sighed in the '60s in a voice marinated in smoke and sophistication--a suggestion so appealing to New York insomniacs that the "Nightbird" became one of the first women in the country to work as a rock 'n' roll deejay. She was also the first female recipient of Billboard's "FM Personality of the Year" and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
MARRIED. JULIE KRONE, 32, all-time winningest female jockey, and MATTHEW MUZIKAR, 26, TV producer; in Saratoga Springs, New York. Krone, who has piloted nearly 3,000 winners, rode the afternoon's card at the Saratoga track (scoring two places and one show) before taking her vows...
Twenty years ago, two young cold warriors--one a U.S. Air Force fighter jockey, the other a Soviet test pilot--watched from opposite sides of the world as their countries staged a high-tech media event. The brief political thaw known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts...