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...Spectacular Bid fails to win the Derby-and the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes-many backstretchers would blame the inexperience of Jockey Ron Franklin, 19. Three years ago, Franklin was a high school dropout whose lifetime experience with horses consisted of working alongside posters of Trigger in a Roy Rogers Roast Beef restaurant in his home town near Baltimore. During a visit to the city's Pimlico Race Course in 1976, Franklin heard the track announcer advertising an opening in Delp's stable. The youngster applied and was hired on the spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest...
...LITTLE ROMANCE Directed by George Roy Hill Screenplay by Allan Burns...
...social sciences in China are not the same as they are here. Whole categories are left out," Roy M. Hofheinz, professor of Government and director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said yesterday...
Wichita Falls (pop. 100,000) was hardest hit by far. There three tornadoes joined together, creating a huge funnel with winds estimated at 225 m.p.h. It sucked up roofs, tore huge limbs from trees, and lifted the debris as high as half a mile into the sky. Said Roy Styles: "I crawled under a mattress, and that's all that saved me because the walls fell in." Cindy Trott, 22, fled to a science building at Midwestern State University for safety. Said she: "It didn't look like a tornado until it got up close to you. Then...
...usual, Japan was the most intransigent bargainer. It put up so many roadblocks that the Europeans were forced to withdraw trucks and electronic items from the list of goods that they had offered for concessions to everyone. Charged the European Community's Sir Roy Denman: "A massive Japanese [trade] surplus is difficult to accept if at the same time the Japanese market is not an open one and the Japanese exporters, like soldiers from a fortress, create havoc...