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...colt was big, bright-eyed, barrel-chested. A picture horse. His legs promised to be straight and flawless; knees and ankles-often soft spots on a thoroughbred-were trim and tight. As he grew, a purist determined not to give him 100% on looks might have argued that his rump was on the skimpy side. He was and still is, as track people say, just a touch goose-butted...
...transmit TV pictures down to earth. Then, after a respite, the astronauts will don their pressure suits and Kerwin will emerge part way from the command-module hatch. Using a pole with cutting shears at its far end (hastily being designed and built at Huntsville), he will try to trim away any debris around the root of the ripped-off solar wing or elsewhere. He will also attempt to swing out the intact wing...
...accompanies it, will help in more serious instances. Persistent cases can be treated by injections of cortisone, a process that many tennis addicts find as painful as tennis elbow itself. As a last resort, some doctors even advise surgery to release the tension on arm tendons or ligaments or trim down oversize epicondyles. In some cases, however, tennis elbow disappears almost as suddenly as it began, often without treatment...
...decrease in black applications and acceptances is not the result of a conspiracy to trim the number of black undergraduates back to the token levels of the early sixties. Nevertheless, some Committee members have offered explanations for the decrease that are not particularly well-founded. The Philadelphia public school strike -- cited by some as a partial reason for the decline -- no doubt contributed to the weaker recruiting program; yet its contribution was clearly overshadowed by the 64-per-cent drop in black applications from two prestigious New England prep schools. Another factor, a large decline in the number of prospective...
...solid. Usually, they are married and own $35,000 to $45,000 houses in stable, often suburban neighborhoods. They tend to avoid taking public stands on political issues and rarely become involved in social causes. Most wear their hair short, dress neatly in business suits and are physically trim. They are the special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and there are now 8,500 of them. Generally conservative, FBI agents believe in a strict adherence to bureau rules...