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...Laurin. Secretariat's trainer; Jockey Ron Turcotte; and Secretariat's principal owne. Mrs. Penny Tweedy. "At one point we approached, with unaccustomed stealth and reverence, the stall where our cover subject was residing," Clark recalls. "We peeked in and saw that Secretariat was eating lunch, so we withdrew discreetly, much as if we had come upon Henry Kissinger over his sweetbreads at Rive Gauche...
...Carolyn did not play, they would cut off city support for the league and bar it from public ballfields. After some soul-searching, the Orioles decided to let Carolyn play. Promptly, national headquarters made good on its threat and withdrew the Orioles' charter. Last week, just as promptly, the city council voted 10-0 to file suit in federal court charging violation of the U.S. Constitution. No verdict is likely for weeks...
Thomas F. Eagleton, LL.D., U.S. Senator. He withdrew as vice-presidential candidate but retained the love of his fellow Missourians...
...most ominous flare-up occurred in southeast Lebanon, when some 1,000 fedayeen crossed over the border from Syria. The troops belong to a fighting unit known as the Yarmuk Brigade, which has the backing of the Syrian government. But after brief skirmishes with Lebanese soldiers, the Palestinian invaders withdrew. Their sortie seemed to have been a largely symbolic demonstration of support for their embattled brothers in Beirut...
...Attorney Edward Bennett Williams was originally retained to handle the Democrats' civil damage suit against the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. But Williams has also long represented the Washington Post. When it became clear that the Democrats might favor calling Post reporters as witnesses, Williams withdrew from the case because of a possible conflict of interest. He soon picked up a new client, however: Robert Vesco, whose various legal problems caused C.R.P. to return his $200,000 cash contribution...