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Trainer Billy Turner prepared Seattle Slew for the Triple Crown quest with a cool deliberation that caused more second-guessing than usual along the backstretch. He purposely raced him little, harnessing his show of speed to guard against the fatal misstep that stalks the big, fragile-legged thoroughbreds. Slew'...
One of the great virtues of running is that it makes dieting unnecessary. A mile run in eight minutes, which is a good hacker's pace, will burn roughly 100 calories. Faddists' diets and food additives such as protein powders have their adherents, but experts are nearly unanimous...
Talking about her love for Burgo, for instance, Trollope's Glencora says: "They told me he would ill-use me, and desert me-perhaps beat me. I do not believe it; but even though that should have been so, I regret it. It is better to have a false...
With ringing, self-congratulatory toasts, Ho Chi Minh's successor, Secretary-General Le Duan, 68, last week ended the first Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party since 1960-and the first held in a unified Viet Nam. The six-day meeting in some respects resembled an overblown victory banquet...
John Wayne, moving slow and seeming winded, appears here as one John Bernard Books, last of a breed. Books is a fast-draw artist, a gunslinger or, as the movie's title phrases it, a shootist. He has dispatched some 30 men over the course of a long career...