Word: rivas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treatment center the SDPs admire women who, like Riva Korashon '75, are not afraid to come in and tutor them. When Riva couldn't get down to Bridgewater one week she wrote her tutee a letter. She got back a note written on the level of a struggling first grade student, with post-script "I love...
...question that tugs at would-be String wearers is whether the minibikini will advertise their assets or expose unlovely flaws. Fashion advisers suggest that no woman should be strung after she is 40 years old. Beverly Hills Designer Jim Riva, who spins his own Strings, warns: "It's something I'd hate to see on every woman in the world. It's got to be for the svelte girl only." Jacqueline Onassis, age 44, who is not noticeably callipygian, sports one but has yet to be photographed from astern. In the U.S., the cheeky look has already...
...even if the race is limited to 26 horses, the Derby could be an untamed affair. Lucien Laurin, trainer of the last two Derby winners, Secretariat and Riva Ridge, says that 26 horses bolting from the gate would be "a cavalry charge," with so much bumping and jostling that many horses would be knocked off stride before reaching the first turn. Laurin himself has decided not to enter Secretariat's half brother Capital Asset, an embarrassing relative which finished last in the Wood. Meanwhile, everyone else's horse van keeps arriving in Louisville...
Meanwhile, Rube the Great (a fine name for a prospective Derby winner) charged past the field to win by five easy lengths. Capital Asset, Secretariat's half brother, and Capito, half brother to Riva Ridge, both suffered from an acute lack of speed in the race, and were never in contention...
...jock taking orders from people who didn't know anything about their horses." At 61, Laurin says that "I've no thought of retirement." He is in fact looking enthusiastically to the future. "I've got a half brother to Secretariat and a half brother to Riva Ridge. They are two-year-olds. As God is my judge, either one-or both-might be better than Secretariat...