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Griffin's rump group would have no hope on a direct vote, but with Congress rushing toward a hoped-for Aug. 3 adjournment, it might get its way with a filibuster. Though Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could ask for a vote of cloture to limit debate, he would need a two-thirds majority, always difficult to come...
...purchased the colt for $20,000. Last year the trotter won a record $222,923 and turned in the fastest mile clocking (1 min. 58 2/5 sec.) ever achieved by a juvenile. Dancer is carefully pointing toward the Hambletonian, the U.S.'s most prestigious trotting race, on Aug. 25; hence he has raced the horse only lightly. Even at that, the colt won all four of his starts and $106,886-$83,373 at Roosevelt last week...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL brings the Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles...
DUBROVNIK (July 10-Aug. 25). The historic Adriatic seaport offers an array of opera, dance and music that includes the Moscow Philharmonic, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, London's Amadeus Quartet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic...
...newspaper ads, the first of a weekly series that will run right up to convention time, appeared in 41 dailies in 33 cities, and, at a cost of $75,000, a half-hour Rockefeller film was shown in prime time on 170 stations of the CBS television network. By Aug. 5, when the delegates meet. Rocky, according to his own estimate, will have spent $1.8 million on advertising...