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Traditionally, investigative reporters have relied on shoe leather and patience to ferret out the proverbial smoking gun. However, in the computer age, newsmen are enlisting the machine with dramatic results...
...time high of $148.5 billion in 1985, up more than 20% from the 1984 peak. In Washington, this may sound like just another economic indicator, but back home where Congressmen campaign, the figure means unemployment, and trade has become a hot regional issue. Textile workers in North Carolina, shoe manufacturers in New England and Missouri, steelworkers in the Midwest and lumberjacks in the Northwest have been the most vocal in their complaints. "The perception is out there," said one Republican Congressman, that the "Administration isn't doing enough...
Only a decade ago, however, Massachusetts was moribund, the archetypal Frost Belt state frozen in a dead-end past. Its jobless rate was higher than any other industrial state's; plant closings and layoffs were epidemic; deficits deepened. Textile mills and shoe factories became abandoned shells, their great machines rusting. Taxachusetts became the state's unofficial nickname, and businesses, feeling oppressed by heavy levies, were clearing out for more hospitable climates...
Charlie Whittingham, 73, Shoe's notion of "the best trainer in the country," was blessed to have forgotten his binoculars in the excitement of the morning. "I didn't know where Shoe was," he admitted. After two dismal Mays out of two, in 1958 and '60 (one of those Whittingham horses is now cutting herds in a rodeo), Charlie swore never to return to Louisville without a contender. "I hoped for the big horse, I waited for him." So the trainer was 26 years between Derby starts, and the rider 21 between Derby victories. "I didn't panic," said Shoemaker...
Bouncing back to the winner's circle at a wonderful canter, Shoemaker misted like an old golfer (Shoe is a 12 handicap). "Old Jack Nicklaus did it," he said, "and I did it too. I thought that I might have one more chance to win the Derby. When Charlie showed me this big juicy colt last year, he told me, 'Here's one I'm going to save for you. We might have some fun with him.' " The British beer guzzler Bold Arrangement took a lovely second and hurried away with a foaming head to the 205-year-old "real...