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...Trainer Ron McAnally. Assured by doctors that the gelding's leg was fully healed, McAnally says it will be at least three months before John Henry can race again. Meanwhile, McAnally's immediate job is to get the champ back in shape. He's about 50 to 70 lbs. overweight, reports McAnally. "But he's in good health and condition." He spent his retirement "just galloping...
...movies have ranged from the eminent to the eminently forgettable, her singular silhouette has budded, bloomed, overripened, then been gloriously pruned. In the past few years, after a much publicized battle with drugs and overweight, Elizabeth Taylor has re-emerged in the public eye to champion humanitarian causes, especially AIDS research. (She became an energetic supporter after the death of her friend Rock Hudson, and late last week appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing urging her former husband John Warner and other Senators to authorize $80 million in Government funds.) Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman...
...princes have a vested interest in preserving the political system, the chances of major change seem remote. Nonetheless, Fahd is sometimes criticized as indecisive and too subservient to religious authorities. The health of the 64-year-old King, a diabetic who craves sweets, smokes cigarettes and is overweight, is a matter of concern. So is the condition of Crown Prince Abdullah, 62, the first in line of succession, who is reportedly scheduled to have coronary-bypass surgery...
Thanks to the new stipulation that students must undergo urinalysis before receiving a diploma (a rule adapted from Major League Baseball), 27 seniors from Leverett House will get to spend another semester here in Cambridge, desperately hoping those THC levels come back down to zero. Harvard graduates, just like overweight, overpaid baseball players, must remember they are the heroes of Young America and set a shining example...
Paradise Postponed combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister. The novel's central mystery emerges after the death, in 1985, of Simeon Simcox, 80, Anglican rector of Rapstone Fanner, a village some two hours' driving time west of London. The clergyman's will contains a staggering surprise. He has left nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned...