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Four in the Fudge. Heavy rain fell all night before the race, and by post time the clay track was the consistency of soft fudge. Unlike flat-racing thoroughbreds, who plant their hoofs, then pick them straight up-and often revel in the softer footing of an "off" track-trotters slide their hoofs slightly forward each time they take a stride; they tend to slip and get mired in the mud. That is exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third...
...Guatemalan operation would succeed. And, Mr. President, the prospects for this [Cuba] plan are even better than they were for that one." There was a strong suggestion that Kennedy could not afford to back away from a long-prepared anti-Castro project and appear to be soft on Communism-softer than the Republicans had been. If the Cuban exile brigade were disbanded, it was argued, they would fan out all over Latin America, and explain how the U.S. "had lost its nerve" in the fight against Communism. "Having created the brigade as an option," says Schlesinger, "the CIA now presented...
Taft, whose defeat in a Senatorial race last year was generally attributed to the Johnson landslide, said that the President's foreign policy has recently become very Republican. Republicans have supported President Johnson's decisions on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, he said, while many Democrats favor "a softer approach toward Communist infiltration." Taft said he favored firm opposition to Communist aggression. He suggested that voters might be asked to support Republicans in 1968 to give the President more backing in Congress...
Different colors have different densities, feel nearer, more vibrant or softer than others; as in Olitski's subtle color washes. Those are predominently on a flat surface. The importance of the surface in contemperary art is brilliantly discussed by Fried in the "nexus o formal "nexus of formal issues" contained in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition: The first of "these issues concerns the ability of line, in modernist painting . . . to be read as bounding a shape or figure, whether abstract or representational...
...blow of losing was a bit softer for fifth man John Hawkins. He hit the shot of the day, a wedge out of the trap on the both that obligingly rolled into the cup feet away. Unfortunately, that gave only...