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Lavish parties are only one form of fun for players. They may also golf, ride horseback, go yachting, or congregate at a "jam house" to sniff cocaine -which may be served on new hundred-dollar bills and carried to the nose on gold pocket knives. At one party attended by the Milners, the guests consumed cocaine worth $6,000. "I don't work," admitted one pimp. "I just eat, sleep, rest and dress." He does work, of course, making the rounds of bars to recruit new "bitches," make drug contacts, and keep track of the latest police activity...
...notable shape with judo. "It's very funny," says Dewi. "After each lesson I feel really beaten-up for a couple of days, and then I'm ready to go again." One advantage is that it can be practiced at home, unlike another of her favorite sports-horseback riding. But judo is not only for physical fitness, she notes sagely. "These days woman is so likely to be attacked that she ought to know how to defend herself...
...marauders on ATVs or snowmobiles occasionally strip hunters' shacks or loot vacation homes. Says Jack Butterfield, administrator of Michigan's state parks: "About all we ever find the next morning is the tracks. It's like a man on foot trying to catch somebody on horseback...
Lancers on horseback found themselves hemmed in by hordes of peasants wearing the loose-fitting robes called galabias. It took 45 minutes for the cortege to move 100 yards. French Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas fought to maintain his balance and at the same time save diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia from being trampled. Security men decided that the scene was unsafe and urged the official mourners to leave. Dour Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin was whisked away to the Soviet embassy. Jordan's King
Occasionally the family would go horseback riding along Ocean Parkway, but mostly Elliott trod the boards for Charlie and smiled sweetly for photos and fashion shows, a sideline that Lucille got him into. "I thought he liked it," she remembers now, "but maybe it took too much out of him emotionally. He did quite a bit when he was nine and ten, but by twelve he was a has-been. He was too old to be cute...