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...fails to win the Derby-and the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes-many backstretchers would blame the inexperience of Jockey Ron Franklin, 19. Three years ago, Franklin was a high school dropout whose lifetime experience with horses consisted of working alongside posters of Trigger in a Roy Rogers Roast Beef restaurant in his home town near Baltimore. During a visit to the city's Pimlico Race Course in 1976, Franklin heard the track announcer advertising an opening in Delp's stable. The youngster applied and was hired on the spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest stable...
...settlement is a fishing village at Fiscardo, on the unspoiled island of Cephalonia. The village, surrounded by cypress-clad mountains, has many small beaches and an atmosphere reminiscent of its piratical past. A double room in a private house is $9 a night. Restaurants serve traditional Greek dishes (moussaka, roast lamb in lemon), as well as fine lobster and the celebrated Robola wine ($2 a bottle). An increasingly popular island is Santorini in the Aegean, which is said to have been the legendary Atlantis. Donkeys and buses are the local transport...
...challenges, and violence." At the end of his three-year enlistment, Caputo writes, "I came home from the war with the curious feeling that I had grown older than my father, who was then 51 ... Once I had seen pigs eating napalm-charred corpses-a memorable sight, pigs eating roast people...
...weeks at a time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed to roast chicken, spinach, green peppers and string beans...
...celebrate the signing of the peace treaty, the White House was planning to give the largest state dinner in its history. Some 1,300 guests were to enjoy a variety of wines and a roast beef entrée as they sat under red-and-yellow-striped tents pitched on the south lawn. A staff of 260 cooks and waiters was assembled to serve the 130 round tables, covered with yellow, green and white cloths, and decorated with hurricane lamps and forsythia branches. The diners, including congressional leaders, prominent Americans of both Jewish and Arab ancestry, and members...