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Though the shiny day had turned forebodingly thunderous just before the race, Marfa bothered the field no more than the rainstorm did Sunny's Halo, who broke second from the tenth position and was never worse than second or first over the entire mile and a quarter. Preoccupied with the promise and problems of this one robust chestnut colt, Trainer David Cross had lost most of his clients this year. He started with 35 horses, ended with just three and did not really blame the defectors. Sunny's Halo's groom and best friend, John...
...Julieann had been away from home only a few hours when, at night in a driving rainstorm, she jumped out of her pen and over perhaps a dozen fences, crossed swamps and pastures and even swam across the Econlockhatchee River. Last Monday at dusk, 100 Ibs. lighter, she arrived back at Kraftsow's. "An incredible journey," says Kraftsow...
...Space Center, Challenger may be able to take off on its maiden voyage by late March or early April, two months behind schedule. The delays have already cost more than $3 million. And the tab could climb still higher. At week's end technicians found that a lashing rainstorm had left deposits of fine grit, possibly beach sand or salt crystals, inside the payload bay. This could mean an expensive, time-consuming cleanup...
...Angeles and San Diego in the south, San Mateo and Marin in the north. Some intrepid souls used surfboards to negotiate flooded streets. Others sandbagged their homes. Cleanup crews frantically cleared tree limbs and tried to keep drains open, but even as the week's fourth major rainstorm was spending itself, forecasters were warning of more bad weather. Still, little seemed to dampen the spirits of fans attending Sunday's Super Bowl game in Pasadena, though city officials had to do a lot of scrambling. Because the golf course usually reserved for parking at the Rose Bowl...
...frequent travelers and uprooted careerists who still care about news from home. Last week the Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the nation's first general-interest national daily, launched itself in sunny Southern California, in the midst of what its editors hoped was a nonsymbolic 1.2-in. rainstorm. The paper's $500,000-plus promotional campaign began with a party for nearly 1,000 guests at the Los Angeles Music Center featuring sushi bars, mariachi bands and, said one competing editor, "a dessert table as big as my office...