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...Florida is dog racing's capital, its White House is the West Flagler Kennel Club in Miami. That neon and plastic Churchill Downs for dogs attracted more than a million fans last season, outdrawing the Dolphins or Hialeah. Many of the breed improvers now come and go without ever seeing a live dog. Instead, they sit in sybaritic comfort in "The Great Racing Theater," a new, cavernous 5,000-seat trackside auditorium where bettors can watch the tote board and the race on a 40-ft. closed-circuit TV screen. It is more convenient to put down late bets...
...familiar trappings of sport, though, dog racing does have a darker side. The dogs are trained as killers. To reinforce the greyhounds' hunting instinct-the breed was first imported from England and Ireland to kill jack rabbits that were destroying crops -their training usually concentrates on the pursuit and killing of real rabbits. These bloody sessions, called coursings, are still run publicly in Abilene, Kans., every year. In Florida, however, they will be banned for training or public racing at the end of this year. The reason: one bloodthirsty promoter put live white rabbits-Easter bunnies-on his track...
...florid, folksy, courtly Southern gentleman-thought to be a vanishing breed-was suddenly resuscitated and became relevant. As one witness after another came before the committee to tell of his shabby doings, Ervin's devotion to law and liberty shone by contrast. His eyebrows dancing up and down like puppets on a string, he made his points sharply and supported them with apt quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible. He sympathized while he remonstrated with the errant public servants, and redemption was always possible. Ervin intended the investigation to educate the American people, and he succeeded. In turn...
HARDSHIP ALONE does not breed peasant revolution. A whole set of factors, some as yet dimly understood, prompted Vietnamese peasants to leave their villages and enter the inferno of revolutionary war. Long has promised to examine this question in another study; judging from Before the Revolution, his next book should be a useful and important contribution to a growing debate among students of Vietnamese history...
...That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there is a recurring pattern of ideas which centers around the stark determinism of Darwinian evolution, the possible effects it may have if inferior men continue to breed, and the need for an enlightened (ie. genetically superior) elite to rule the world. This pattern looms large in H.G. Wells, an enlightening--if limited--new biography by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie...