Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bought Titus and brought it to the U.S., after a year of stalking it, is perhaps the only man in the world who could and would execute such a coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire?about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling a $45 million assortment of art that...
Changed Color. Not even unconquered tribes dared to oppose a man whose executioners would cut open 100 pregnant women to satisfy their ruler's transient interest in embryology, whose fierce regiments would slaughter each other unless quartered in widely separated kraals. Toward the white man, however, Shaka assumed a friendly mien. The first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...
Success as a novelist destroyed him as a novelist. He abandoned fiction and busily set about to become a "real ruler of the world." He denounced the capitalists, denounced the Catholics, denounced the Jews, cheered the Nazis, cheered the Communists (eventually he joined the Communist Party as an act of spiritual affirmation), and wildly decried the Mann...
...might object that Swift Ruler is too cheap a horse for the Derby, but his brilliant race against Lucky Debonair proves he can hold his own against the best three-year olds in the country. HOW THEY'LL FINISH 1. Swift Ruler 15-1 2. Lucky Debonair 4-1 3. Bold Lad 6-5 4. Native Charger 8-1 5. Hall to All 8-1 6. Flag Raiser 8-1 7. Tom Rolfe 5-1 8. Dapper Dan 20-1 9. Carpenter's Rule 30-1 10. Mr. Pak 30-1 11. Narusha...