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...walnut horse so homely and cantankerous that he was gelded as a yearling heard the sweet cheers of a racetrack crowd for the first time in 17 years, and then he died of colic the next day at the age of 26. Kelso, the great-grandson of Man o' War, was fetched to Belmont in New York State the Saturday before last along with Forego, a younger pensioner similarly handicapped. The occasion was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a stake that Kelso won five years in a row (1960-64), when he was the horse of the year every...
Because of a recent case in California, doctors have yet another reason to fear the consequences of their actions. The case developed after Clarence Herbert, 55, a racetrack security guard, suddenly slipped into a coma following a seemingly successful 1981 operation at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles. With the family's consent, his doctors removed his respirator. "They said he was clinically dead and would never return," insists his wife Patsy. When Herbert kept breathing, the doctors cut off intravenous food and water, again with the family's agreement. Finally, eleven days after the operation, Herbert...
...film opens to the familiar beat of new wave pop and the sight (Yawn) of black vinyl spinning on a record player. But look again. What appears to be a spinning record is actually the perfect curve of a racetrack, filmed from far above, the spinning effect achieved by race cars circling in parallel formation. This cinematographic sleight-of-hand is just the first drop in a cascade of sensory jokes and puns that keep this sophisticated bit of flotsam bubbling along. The viewer can't help but go happily with the flow...
...which can carry either ten 1-megaton warheads or a single 25-megaton monster] rather than we build more holes," Reagan said. "But we can accommodate either." Weinberger had advised Reagan not to mention this option of deception, arguing that it would sound too much like Carter's racetrack. Even if expanded, however, Reagan insisted that the MX deployment would occupy only "a small land area...
...question Reagan's assertions of Soviet nuclear superiority, believe the disadvantages of MX deployment outweigh the benefits, and have grave doubts about the feasibility of the Dense Pack basing mode (see following stories). It is roughly the 30th option considered by the Air Force, which long favored the "racetrack" system supported in 1979 by President Carter. This involved shuttling 200 MX missiles on flatbed trailers among 4,600 shelters in Utah and Nevada. That $34 billion plan was buried under a barrage of environmental and political opposition, including that of Presidential Candidate Reagan...