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...father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect who played football with him: "Even when they spit on him, he wouldn't say anything. He was completely at peace with himself...
...full speed, this huge and powerful combination of bone, muscle and glistening red chestnut coat covers just an inch short of 25 ft. in a single stride. He has finished first in 11 of 14 races. He has won $804,202 since last July 4 -more than any other single competitor in any sport-and in 1972 as a mere two-year-old, he was named horse of the year. Now, having won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness this spring, Secretariat is an odds-on favorite to run away with the Belmont Stakes this Saturday and earn...
Most Koreans, however, take the invasion in stride. When Correspondent Chang asked three lovely kisaeng, who earn $500 per month, how they felt about the Japanese, one replied: "It's hard for us to accept some-but we must work hard not only for ourselves and our families but for our country's future. Our country needs more money for its economic development...
Whitlam took it in stride. Asked at a press conference how he would rate Sir Alec's response on a scale of "bored to pusillanimous," Whitlam replied: "I wouldn't use either of those words. He was courteous and helpful." Whitlam's only truly tart words in London, in fact, were directed at the French, who insist that their tests are not nearly as dangerous as the Australians fear. "If there is nothing wrong with the tests," he said, "then why don't the French save some money and hold them in Corsica...
...security door in Eliot House went into operation for the first time this weekend, and most students took the increased precaution in stride, though there was an undercurrent of feeling that the added security is unnecessary...