Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of the West, a dangerous stretch runner that had dominated California racing throughout the spring. The two colts battled behind the leaders for the first mile on the old course in Louisville, Ky., last week, but when it came to the testing moment on the far turn, Spectacular Bid ran off from Flying Paster and away from the field, winning the 105th Run for the Roses by 2¾ lengths over General Assembly. His right foreleg cut, Flying Paster finished fifth, ten lengths back...
...seemed on Derby day. Franklin broke the colt cleanly from the gate, then held him under firm control through the clubhouse turn. In the backstretch, he took Spectacular Bid to the outside, avoiding the tight traffic near the rail. When Flying Paster moved up inside on the far turn, Franklin held his ground. Spectacular Bid looked Flying Paster right in the eye and then went to work. As they swung into the home stretch, Franklin and Spectacular Bid were free and clear. "I talked to him and tweaked him," said Franklin later, "and he moved right up. I said...
Last week it was Wojtyla's turn. Now Pope John Paul II, he put Casaroli, 64, in line for a red hat by naming him acting Secretary of State. The job, and the hat, will be permanent as soon as the Pope holds his first consistory to create new Cardinals. Since the Secretariat of State functions as a superexecutive within the Vatican Curia, it is the most important appointment John Paul II will make. Casaroli becomes the highest-ranking churchman after the Pope himself...
Canada's Dempster Highway, named after a turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces...
Griffiths unequivocally denied that he had lost confidence in his top tandem, and told stockholders: "They need your support." Says Silverman: "I don't feel even an unstated deadline." Some industry watchers think that Silverman will have through 1980 to turn things around. But others are not so sure. "I'll take the odds and say he won't be there after the fall," a former NBC vice president told TIME's James Willwerth in Los Angeles...