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...album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding a motorcycle, mugging in Bavarian costume, petting dogs and stiffly modeling a slinky gown. In the same issue, the Times says that Eva, who was bored stiff by Hitler's political harangues, tried to make herself look more attractive by stuffing handkerchiefs in her bra. She called der Führer "the old gentleman," and it was not until three years after they met that they finally bedded down on the same red velvet sofa that...
Although opposition in the Nationals will be predictably stiff, Doyle (a two-time All-American who last year won the North American single-handed title) and coach Mike Horn are confident they have a legitimate claim to the championship...
...reason for the scarcity of Triple Crown winners is that the grueling length of the Belmont -1½ miles, against 1¼ for the Derby and l 3/16 for the Preakness-has a way of producing upsets. Another is that the competition among three-year-olds has become increasingly stiff. Citation, for example, was one of 5,819 thoroughbreds foaled in 1945; Cañonero was one of 22,911 born in 1968-and a most unimpressive one at that. Indeed it is not so much the rarity of a Triple Crown contender but the ragamuffin-to-riches rise that...
...intelligent enough to understand the Common Market's crazily complex and loophole-perforated farm regulations. The ploy involves one or both of two operations: illegally claiming the subsidies paid by the EEC on exports of farm products to countries outside the Six, and dodging the EEC's stiff tariffs on imports. The subsidies* and tariffs are intended to equalize Common Market commodity prices with world prices, which are generally lower. In agro-fraud, the trick is to move products across borders under the wrong label...
...become "burthensome to the nation" to house bankrupts in London's two debtors' prisons, despite the exaction of stiff entrance fees and rents for all cells better than the most wretched. Accordingly, Parliament voted to turn the debtors loose. One of them was Jonathan Wild, an energetic, 29-year-old bucklemaker and bailiff's nark whose sole distinction before his imprisonment was that he had accumulated debts...