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...counted enough sheep to fill a paddock, but you still can't get the shut-eye you need. Do you a) start counting goats; b) get out of bed and read; or c) take a sleeping pill? If you picked reading, your restless nights may soon be over. According to a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, adopting a few basic habits--like limiting the amount of time you spend in bed--works better than pills or goats in controlling chronic insomnia...
...bluegrass is at its finest in spring, and for Seattle Slew, the legendary Thoroughbred, the season is especially sweet. The dark brown stallion spends nights out in his 2 1/2-acre paddock at Three Chimneys Farm and, after a morning gallop, is ready for his first mare of the day. This year he's booked with 65--he breeds twice daily from February through June. The mares' owners hope he'll pass on his winning ways and invincible spirit, as he has already to progeny Cigar and this year's Derby hopeful Pulpit. In the afternoon Slew's a show horse...
...dash is at once the shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure for the 1996 Centennial Games...
...medal in the springboard and a bronze in the 100-m backstroke. (She still has medal certificates signed personally by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.) Those were the Games later dramatized in Chariots of Fire, a movie to which Aileen takes great exception. "They did a grave injustice to Charley Paddock, the sprinter who became a dear friend. They portrayed him as a skinny fellow of few words. Why, he was powerfully built, and he could talk the ears off the Prince of Wales...
...Paddock was unavailable for comment yesterday...