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STEVE CAUTHEN, 36; VERONA, KENTUCKY; former professional jockey In 1978, at 18, Cauthen rode Affirmed to become the youngest--and last--jockey to win the Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses...
...society. Besides the police officers, the woman psychotherapist and an architect, the dead included Patrick Vuarnet, the 27-year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line of chic sunglasses. For Vuarnet fils--whose mother Edith, his woman companion Ute Verona and their daughter Tania, 6, accompanied him in death--the prerogatives of status had melted under the mystical thrall of a sect known as the Order of the Solar Temple...
...PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION WITH Powell taking the oath of office could mean another "Camelot" for America. ESTEB SALES ESTADILLA Verona, New Jersey...
...central conceit here is that Romeo and Juliet are both just horny, whiny teenagers, and that Romeo is actually gay. Thus both lovers fall for Constance, thinking her to be a boy, and both cross-dress to gain her attention, leading to gems such as: "Doth no one in Verona sail straight...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...