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...Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee for public schools, "and now that it's no longer politically useful, he's not going to carry their banner." Says former Citizens Council President Dr. Malcolm Taylor: "He turned his back on greatness. No longer will we thrill to the tirades of a toothless tiger. We must look elsewhere for leadership...
Died. Charles Louis ("Clem") McCarthy, 79, the U.S.'s best-known horse-race announcer, an Irish horse auctioneer's son who, though thwarted at becoming a jockey, made the nation thrill to the turf's most exciting moments by the gravel tremor of his voice, particularly his annual (1928-50) calling of the Kentucky Derby; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Only once did Clem err, swapping first-and second-place finishers in the 1947 Preakness because they wore look-alike silks. Not the man to flinch, he rasped: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a horrible mistake...
...they settled into barracks, the Gurkhas seemed to adapt quickly to the land so many had defended and so few had seen. Though members of a Hindu sect that sanctions polygamy, few brought even one wife. Their greatest thrill was watching TV, which they had never seen before. The Gurkhas in fact were possibly the only segment of Britain's TV audience that expressed no indignation at the parade of violence on their screens. Though it was plainly this side of heaven, they thought it exhilarating...
...thrill blasting down the straightaway at 180 m.p.h. What's really thrilling is taking a 70-m.p.h. corner at 75-coming through it at the absolute limit of tire adhesion, with the nose pointed perfectly down the straightaway and the throttle flat on the floor. Then you feel like an artist who has spent his life trying to paint the smile of Mona Lisa, finally gets it right with a single flick of his brush, and says to the rest of the world, "There, you bastards, match that!" There are not many who can even come close to Britain...
...basic curiosity, motives . Some jump because they think the good life must have frequent with danger; others do it for reasons in times of . A few do it to prove to themselves--and, perhaps, to others--that they are men. And, of course, there those who just seek the thrill...