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...apparent weakness into unorthodox strength. At Stanford that has proved to be something of a necessity. Walsh inherited a stout defense from his predecessor and onetime protege Dennis Green. The offense is a different story. With the exception of Glyn Milburn, an elusive back who runs like a scalded whippet, there is little team speed. After some thought, Walsh converted 250-lb. defensive end Nate Olsen, son of former N.F.L. star Merlin, into a blocking back, and sometimes uses 290-lb. tackle Jeff Buckey as if he were a tight end. "I never would have thought of that," says Stanford...
Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...control the tapeworm that plagued Icelanders for centuries. Enough time to give one pause. Actually, the city in recent years has been so undogmatic about enforcing the ban that it now has an estimated 3,000 dogs. The atmosphere is scarcely one to make a pup tense. Putting up whippet all, police almost never enforce the law (or collect the $200 fine) for harboring a bootleg mutt...
Most of them talk freely of a hugely lucrative "communications revolution" in the decade to come, and they honor Turner as the most important supplier of basic cable service to advance that future. They thronged to his kickoff party at the NCTA gathering and were plainly pleased as the whippet-like (6 ft. 1 in., 175 lb.) Turner windmilled through the crowd greeting many by name, his raspy drawl audible from yards away despite the background music...
Please, the Rex cat does not look like a rat. If you must liken this unique animal to another, the Rex should be known as the greyhound or whippet of catdom. With its curly, nonshedding coat the Rex is a cat that people with allergies can often keep...