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...undetectable stimulant was a 2.6% solution of ephedrine. Sprayed up horse's nostrils, ephedrine acts within 15 minutes and the effect lasts for about two hours. Jockey Club snoopers first seized and analyzed a nearly empty bottle found in one of Smith's stalls. Then on Nov. 1, just after his Magnific Duel won at Jamaica, inspectors broke into the stall and caught the training staff with the goods-ephedrine in atomizers...
Bluer than oppositionist Gomecistas were Brazil's Communists. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle's recent intervention had spiked Communist efforts to call for a constituent assembly, then stall elections and keep Vargas in power. Now Vargas, too, had discarded the idea...
...Binghamton, N.Y. farm, he went off his feed. Then he got a new interest: a pint-sized pony pal named Peanuts II, who could walk under Old Bones' belly. When Peanuts died last year, Exterminator again stopped eating, until his pal's body was left in his stall overnight; they found him kneeling with his head on Peanuts' cold flank...
...made them sing and dance for their amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
WAVES were given more comfortable quarters than Navy men are used to. "There are certain niceties it would be lovely for men to have too," Miss Mac said. "But if women don't have them their efficiency is jeopardized." One of those niceties was stall compartments for bunks, giving an effect of privacy. This was not pampering. Dr. Overholser, who has the job of caring for psychoneurotics among WAVES, thought that lack of privacy might be one factor in mental crackups among girls in uniform...