Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
Triple Crown Race (CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.). They're off in the Belmont Stakes...
...spurred a little, long-tailed brown colt named Carry Back into outrunning the limited promise of his unimpressive pedigree. With victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness behind him and capable Jockey Johnny Sellers in his saddle, Carry Back will parade to the post for the $125,000 Belmont Stakes this week, an odds-on favorite to become the first thoroughbred in 13 years to win U.S. racing's elusive Triple Crown...
...recent elections, Mark H. Mullin '62, of Dunster House and Mt. Carroll, Ill., was chosen to lead next year's spring track team: H. Grady Watts, Jr. '62, of Kirkland House and Manhasset, N.Y., was picked for lacrosse; and Paul W. Sullivan '63, of Dunster House and Belmont, was selected for tennis...
...Castro's prisoner. Varona's son, two brothers and one nephew were missing. So was Council Member Antonio Maceo's son. The Revolutionary Council held a funereal press conference in the tinseled gaudiness of the Moderne Room of Manhattan's Belmont Plaza. Still playing by the rules, Miró gamely denied that...