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...become Canada's top jockey. The muscular little rider moved to the U.S. in 1964, and has guided his mounts to more than $1,000,000 in total purses every year since. Last year his 10% share of his horses' winnings came to $278,000. Now a rock-hard 112 Ibs., he credits his wife Gaetane's calorie-conscious cooking with helping him to keep slim. His old lumberjack's breakfast menu of eggs, flapjacks, beans, meat and a slab of cold dried fat back is only a memory. For spiritual replenishment, he periodically packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trio After a Triple Crown | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...gloriously hopeful -and frightening. Instead of tidy classrooms, there is weightlifting in a shanty called the music room. And all those wild-looking kids running around. Within a period of three hours, I got squirted with water, pinched by an incipient Lolita and hit in the back with a rock-hard, organically grown orange, which strayed from a ball game. Unsupervised by adults, kids of all ages did incredible gymnastic feats on a rope strung between two trees. In the main room of a green bungalow, the school's chief structure, four girls and a boy strung beads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chaos and Learning: The Free Schools | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...from goin' out the window is thinkin' of that short walk to the ring, and all those faces there, lookin' at me and sayin': 'Why it's a miracle! He looks sooo beautiful.' " He did, weighing in last week at a rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added 1 Jin. to his biceps. "I'm hitting much harder and sharper now," Ali boasted. It sounded like the old Cassius con, but his manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Ringmaster | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...These they provided in abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five a day: two in the morning, then lunch, a hefty afternoon snack, and finally dinner. "Tumtum one of the Khmers said, slapping my fat stomach. Then, slapping his own rock-hard middle, he boasted, "Kampuchea, tut-tut." Kampuchea means Cambodia in Khmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report from a Captured Correspondent | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...within the other. In the last and smallest, she is completely nude. New Yorker Lyn Wells has made a life-size portrait of a neighbor by printing back and front views on sensitized linen, sewing the two pieces together along the outlines and filling the space between with rock-hard urethane foam. The most complex and abstract figure is Jack Dales' Cubed Woman No. 3, a rigidly geometric construction of glass photographic plates in a Plexiglas cube. From each of the four sides there is a different view of the same seated female nude. But at first glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Dimensions | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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