Word: saratoga
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...been to Alaska four times, and must have done a lot of research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon...
...meter backstroke by .7 sec. with the time of 1:01.5, later led off the Aussies' 440-yd. medley relay team that thrashed home in 4:19.4 to lower the world's record by .6 sec. Meanwhile, sturdy, 14-year-old Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif., swimming in a nearby San Jose pool, set three U.S. records in one astounding afternoon with times of 57.9 sec. for the loo-yd. freestyle, 4:54.8 for the 440-yd. freestyle and 5:37.5 for the 500-yd. freestyle...
...long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...
...Three Ideas." The talks began on the subject of Anglo-American scientific sharing. "Harold," said the President, "you know I cruised briefly last summer on our newest aircraft carrier, the Saratoga. And I found myself particularly interested in three things-the angled deck, the mirror landing system and the steam catapult. The angled deck and catapult have made our carriers much more effective, and the landing system has saved lives of our men. I found also that all three of them were British ideas, British inventions." Macmillan was more than willing to agree on the mutual benefits of scientific cooperation...
...When fire broke out in the King Ranch stable at Saratoga race track, 14 thoroughbreds were turned loose. But Here and There, a three-year-old filly that had come up from dead last to win the Alabama Stakes that same afternoon, bolted, crashed back into the barn, was burned to death...