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...finish when he found Ethiopia's heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut's Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York's Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start of the 1⅛-mile race, the undefeated bay colt belonging to Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight...
...racing career began on the day of Grover Cleveland's first inauguration, more than 78 years ago, and now Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American horse trainers, has decided to call it quits. Bent with spinal arthritis, he explained to friends and reporters at New York's Aqueduct race track that "I can't do things any more. People I should be hollering at, I walk right by them like they're not there...
...when the thoroughbred season ends. Attendance at Yonkers Race way has averaged nearly 22,000 a night since Feb. 25, even though spectators sometimes had to build grandstand bonfires to keep warm. On a recent Saturday, 51,959 people bet $4,362,768 on the thoroughbreds at Aqueduct, contributed $500,000 toward balancing Governor Nelson Rockefeller's beleaguered budget...
Playing Camille's lover, John Stride indulges in so much whinnying, snorting and foot pawing that it is not clear whether he is suffering from the onset of amour or the opening of Aqueduct. As for Susan Strasberg, daughter of Actors Studio Artistic Director Lee Strasberg, it is surely a father's duty to tell her. As the phthisical Marguerite Gautier, only a cough distinguishes her from the Chatty Cathy doll...
There is practically no reservation at all in the approval of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield, who founded Kaiser-style group practice in the California desert in 1933. Dr. Garfield was responsible for the health of construction workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct. His earliest plan covered only on-the-job injuries, but soon it was extended to all illnesses and injuries. At Grand Coulee Dam and in Kaiser's World War II shipyards, Dr. Garfield broadened his plan to cover workers' families as well. Modern Medikaiser is based on his early experience...