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...uses the first daylight hours, except when snow is on the ground, to play solitary golf with luminous balls at a country club next to his home. He keeps no score, dashes up and lunges at the ball, then chases it across the fairway at a fast jog. Caddies call him "the ghost...
Bachelor Athlete. For Hartack, getting the mostest out of a horse starts with the warmup jog to the starting gate. He seems to examine his mount with the seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering...
...northeast winds and in April, when the winds changed, drifted back, heavy-laden, toward India and the Arabian coast. Zanzibar, in the words of one of its political leaders, was "a happy island"-its climate fine, its people content, its crime rate low, and even its clocks willing to jog along a full six hours behind those in the rest of East Africa. But that was before democracy raised its enlightened head. Last week as Zanzibaris, dressed in their Sunday best, trooped to the polls to cast the first votes of their lives, the world caught up with Zanzibar...
...murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters come alive, all the writer has to do is jog along with his notebook and record what they...
...Clock Watcher. The railbirds booed only because they were hoping for a record. But Runner Ron runs against competitors, not the clock. Since his teen-age days in Dublin's Catholic University School he has been content to jog along just fast enough to win. His better than four-minute victory in the 1,500-meter Olympic run in Melbourne last fall gave him all the proof he cares to have that he can go as fast...