Word: known
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Image was disqualified for such an infraction after winning the 1968 Kentucky Derby. A post-race urine test revealed Dancer's violation, and if Larry DiCara and others of Wednesday's officials had been on the ball, they would have gotten a urine sample from the Raccoon, also known as Rick Tarnas, and then disqualified...
...somewhat different. First of all. Dancer's Image is a horse, and the Raccoon is a man. And though both were led into their sin through their trainers, the distribution between species makes it clear that there was more chance of premeditated drug-taking by Tarnas. He must have known that was smoking those joints and that this is strictly prohibited in that it gives him an unfair advantage over his red-blooded American opponents...
...points to NASA's inability to accept the technical expertise of those of us outside the space industry. Had they asked for my assistance, I would have recommended the Light Energy Neutralization System Cover and Protective Shielding. Of course, NASA might want to follow its well-known penchant for acronyms and rename the system LENS CAPS...
...George Orwell's chillingly prescient novel 1984, the totalitarian state is seen as a form of organization that is assured of complete, self-perpetuating supremacy. According to Andrei Amalric, a young (31) and as yet little-known Russian writer, Orwell was way off. In a controversial essay that only recently reached the West, Amalric observes that the once monolithic Soviet state is already "distending itself and disintegrating like sour dough." Between 1980 and 1985, he predicts, it will explode in "anarchy, violence and intense national hatred...
...days, Elbrick, 61, had been known to drop in on local samba clubs and dance into the wee hours. Now his ebullient style has been severely cramped. A couple of Marines camp out in his Rio residence. As many as 30 Brazilian security men shadow him at times. So many guards follow him to Sunday Mass that he has to come late and leave early to avoid a commotion. Only once since the kidnaping have Elbrick and his wife ventured out for a private dinner with friends, and security precautions turned the evening into a shambles. The besieged ambassador cannot...