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...Hubert Humphrey, of course, has not yet faced a fresh test in the current mood. Always ranking high on decency and personal warmth, he is now seen as a rather comfortable old shoe-which fits the desire for serenity but not the search for new leadership. However, Humphrey is also seen as experienced in world affairs. If international concerns should arise to overshadow the economic issues amid continued recovery, the national mood would favor the most experienced veterans: Humphrey among the Democrats and Ford among the Republicans...
...where he reckoned that people are more trusting than in street-wise big cities. Stores and gas stations in these towns often stock the blank counter checks of state banks, and he would simply go in and collect a clutch of such paper. Then with a shoe-box-sized checkwriting machine, he would imprint the amount of the check in a neat, official-looking script. The amounts were always the same: a small odd-dollar figure that seemed like a reasonable weekly wage. For years it was $89.25; inflation recently obliged him to up it to $93.40. Beneath the signature...
...translates as "accidental, fortuitous, incompatible with a cosmos"). Adalberto Vilaseco devotes his career to publishing the same poem under different titles. Forbidden by his religion from drawing likenesses of the world, Artist José Enrique Tafas carefully paints Buenos Aires street sights and then entirely blackens them with shoe polish. His prices vary according to the amount of work that went into the now invisible scenes...
...swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden who was 59 at the time when he retired. No one else is within 2,000 wins of Shoemaker...
...losses, like the time he was riding Gallant Man in the 1957 Kentucky Derby and miscalculated the location of the finish line. But on three other occasions, he won that race; ten times since 1951 he has been the top money-winning rider (his lifetime total: nearly $58 million). Shoe's overall winning average comes close to one race out of every four-or 260 victories a year. What next? If he rides until he reaches Longden's retirement age of 59 and wins only 200 races a year, he will reach...