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...prescription-two tablets, forced down the horse's throat with a "balling gun." That was the only time, insisted Cavalaris, that he or anybody in his employ ever administered bute to Dancer's Image. His story suggested that Dancer's Image, through some quirk in his physiological makeup, retained the drug for an extraordinarily long period of time-a tenuous possibility after reports from Kentucky indicated that his urine contained considerably more than a mere trace of the drug. Two other explanations were favored by the horse's owner. Boston Auto Dealer Peter Fuller: 1) urine...
...most illustrious and successful artists in Europe, leader of the school whose detailed panoramas of Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
...many, this may be wrong, reports Dr. Jean Mayer in Science. By a quirk of body chemistry, the brain's appetite-regulating centers can create the opposite effect - if you exercise enough, you may eat less and get thinner...
With that, the highest military court applied Miranda v. Arizona to the armed forces. The case at hand involved a long-shot quirk. On May 1, 1966, Airman Third Class Michael Tempia was detained for making obscene statements to three 10-year-old girls in a ladies' room at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Under military law, Tempia was advised that he would have a right to free military counsel-but only after being charged. After Tempia admitted the offense, he was tried on June 14, the day, it so happened, after the Supreme Court announced in Miranda that...
Married. Nancy Quirk Williams Jr., 23, eldest daughter of former Michigan Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams; and Theodore Ketterer III, 23, salesman for IBM; in an Episcopal ceremony in Detroit. Soapy's regalia: striped trousers and cutaway morning coat, embellished with his familiar green polka...