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Some of the depositors are understandably impatient. One complained recently to Arthur Brown, the association's receiver, that the horse should run every week. But that is the surest way to turn Knight Counter into Bad Debts. Rejoined Brown: "We might kill the horse if we did that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Heavy Handicap | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

When I took the course up until the moment that I began meditation I doubted that anything would happen I was almost disappointed when it was so easy I thought I was doing something wrong. But my instructor informed me that the surest way to meditate incorrectly is to make an effort in any way to achieve a result is effortless...

Author: By Dorothy A. Lindsay, | Title: Meditation on the Moon? | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

Several competitors command attention in the hurdle and throwing events. Until a few weeks ago, the athlete with the surest shot at a gold medal in track seemed to be muttonchopped Rod Milburn of Opelousas, La., who has not lost a 110-meter hurdle race in two seasons. Then, in the final at the U.S. trials, he was jarred off balance and finished third, behind Tom Hill and Willie Davenport. Milburn still ranks as the favorite, but he is clearly not invincible. In the discus, Jay Silvester of Orem, Utah, was the world record holder beaten by Al Oerter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics '72: Citius, Altius, Fortius | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...clue that new moves toward a negotiated end to the war are under way came from a high U.S. Administration official after the Nixon announcement. Said he: "I have insisted through all periods that in our judgment, the surest, most reliable and most desirable way of ending the war was through negotiations. I maintained this position when it was being ridiculed and when people said there was absolutely no possibility of negotiations. The President, who has been dedicated to this negotiating process from the beginning, against all odds, is not going to be found wanting when the whole record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's Coup: To Peking for Peace | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...dishes and cooking the meals-not a word about maybe your husband helping. She hits on women as targets for advertising, and recommends that they form buying cooperatives. That's it on capitalism. She ends on a call to struggle-although heaven knows it's not to arms: "The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Feminism The Female Guru | 6/16/1971 | See Source »

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