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...time it took to read the previous paragraph, the world's richest horse race was over. The million-dollar quarter-mile All-American Futurity, run last week at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., was won in exactly 21.98 sec. As the ultimate sprint for quarter horses−cowboy mounts bred for brief bursts of speed, often by crossbreeding with thoroughbreds−the Futurity yielded an opulent purse of no less than $330,000 to the winner, a fat 58% more than the $209,600 first prize at the Kentucky Derby. Even the tenth horse, which was scratched, collected...
Coyotes are formidably equipped for survival. They can sprint at 40 m.p.h., cover 200 miles a day in search of food, and eat just about anything. But, experts say, coyotes are particularly successful in urban areas because they are unusually crafty-perhaps, some animal behaviorists theorize, because decades of hunting and trapping by man have weeded out the less clever and wary of them. Concedes Robert Rush, chief of the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department: "The coyotes have a lot of smarts. They can get water out of a pool in Brentwood while the pet dog is sleeping inside...
...sprint man Clifton Mayberry, who has, clocked, a 9.9 100-yard dash, is the other dual runner on the team. The mile run will be charged to the responsibility of sophomore Jeff Campbell, whose fastest time thus far has been...
...challengers came, the challengers ebbed, and when the afternoon was over Crimson lightweight boats had once again turned the Eastern sprint into the Harvard Sprint, winning all three grand finals on a very fast Lake Carnegie...
...enough time in the remainder of his term to get used to an unknown. It would also surely be someone who could get along comfortably with the aroused Congress. And though Kissinger came from academe, his successor is not likely to be plucked from the same area: for the sprint through 1976, more experience would be required. Says a Foreign Service professional: "We don't need or want another master theoretician...