Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real knockout at last week's fight between Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard in New Orleans: Cover Girl Christie Brinkley, who was simultaneously posing for a fashion article in France's Elle magazine and photographing the action for Fight Promoter Don King. The winner: her gold lame paper jumpsuit. "It was like being wrapped in a Baggie," she said. Yet the incendiary getup had more than a few fight fans burning for a match...
...Swanson's horses was a stud named Amigo S, who had some speed on him, and in 1947 Swanson began racing on the quarter-horse circuit. Riding without boots, to cut weight, he twice tied the world record for the furlong (12.3 seconds). Then Amigo S came up lame, and Swanson found an art school at Carmel, Calif. near the ocean, so he could exercise him in salt water. Mornings, he broke horses to make a living-"I'd have half a dozen of them lined up in the corral, already saddled, and I'd ride them...
...Moscow's backing, Kania is dealing from a very weak hand. That became evident last week when Administration sources confirmed that Poland had asked the U.S. for $3 billion in low-interest loans over three years. A rescue mission of such magnitude is an impossibility for the lame-duck Carter Administration. But to show good faith, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has recommended that credit guarantees for grain sales to Poland be increased from $670 million to a reported $900 million over the next year. According to British Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson, who was in Warsaw last week, Poland...
Full-Feathered Lame Duck...
Carnesale, who will continue to teach and serve as associate director of the Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs, said yesterday he does "not expect any action to be taken during a lame duck session, nor would I encourage...