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...those Whittingham horses is now cutting herds in a rodeo), Charlie swore never to return to Louisville without a contender. "I hoped for the big horse, I waited for him." So the trainer was 26 years between Derby starts, and the rider 21 between Derby victories. "I didn't panic," said Shoemaker, who has won 8,537 races worth more than $100 million, including at Churchill Downs on Swaps (1955), Tomy Lee ('59) and Lucky Debonair ('65). "I took my time. I felt good." Moving up surely, going around some and about others, he made his last crucial pass through...
...free-spirited tour of boho fashion, Manhattan style. There is a lot of fun- house art on the walls, and sculpture that looks as if it belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island. Jewelry resembles a collection of body ornaments from some lost tribe out of H. Rider Haggard--adornment for young natives swacked on pop culture who listen to Husker Du and go to art openings the way uptowners might check out the 8 o'clock movie...
That's right, the No. 1 box-office attraction of this generation (Dirty Harry and Pale Rider), the actor turned director who made Hollywood accept him on his terms, not its, wants to serve his fellow Carmelites in a job that pays a modest $200 a month. "I don't need the money," says Eastwood in that no- wasted-words fashion he has made famous onscreen. "There is nothing ego gratifying in it. This administration has simply been cruel to people...
...have originated with Pentagon hard-liners, including Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. They argued that the ABM limitations do not apply to new technology. In 1972, the only operational missile-killing systems consisted of interceptor missiles fired from fixed ground sites. Negotiators attached to the treaty a rider known as Agreed Statement D, specifying that any new forms of ABM defense "would be subject to discussion." In the Pentagon reading, that clause exempted "exotic" systems, such as laser and particle beams, from the prohibitions of the pact. "Crazy," replied John Rhinelander, former legal counsel to the U.S. negotiating team...
...union chiefs, Ueberroth wrote to each athlete individually, in plain desperation. But the Players Association acted quickly to forestall him. A few of the enclosed ballots were immediately filled out, and whole teams opted for testing--Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted by a number of major league players...