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...suburbs. It is a nine-room stone-&-stucco house on a dead-end street in Rockville Centre, L.I. ?safe for his two kids, Carolyn, 6,?and Bobby, 4. Arcaro, who has been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...
...years ago he stole another long race?the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup ?exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...
Last week, the shortage of steel was pinching off production in the whole industry. After a drop of 3,000 units a fortnight ago, auto production last week fell 17,600 more to 85,345 units, the worst production week in three months. G.M. last week shut down eleven Chevrolet assembly plants, and this week closed the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac assembly plants for a week. Plymouth also shut down for a week. Ford, which had closed earlier for model changes, had not got back to volume production. On top of the steel shortage were the threats of the rambunctious...
...month ago, Pan Am and Panagra carried their fight to Congress. They pointed out that Braniff had asked for airmail subsidies of $3,000,000 a year, 22 times what it had originally estimated it would need. Last week they made a last-ditch effort to get CAB to hold new hearings...