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LABOR, four-Shultz, James Hodgson, Peter Brennan, John Dunlop...
Nixon relaxes during the afternoons, frequently getting in a round of golf on the course at nearby Camp Pendleton with his aide, Colonel (ret.) Jack Brennan. Pat Nixon, by all visitors' accounts, is aglow-buoyant and relaxed as she oversees Casa Pacifica or putters in her garden. "I'm loving this place," she told a friend not long...
...Brennan's anyway. Chelonian racing has been popular in California for over a decade, but at Brennan's it has become a cult. Each Thursday evening up to 700 aficionados toting map turtles, pacific pond turtles, diamondbacks and other favored varieties converge on the bar in search of a spot on its 13-race card and the chance to cart home a plywood trophy. There are time sheets and a record book, and the turtle with the evening's fastest time has its name engraved on a plaque that sits behind the bar. The track record...
...other terrapins he races in water-filled ice chests in the back of his Dodge "turtle van." Says Mooney: "It shows a lot of class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...
...speedster named Juan Fangio, named after the retired Argentine Grand Prix driver. Smothers' wife Linda thinks she knows the reason for Juan Fangio's success: "Turtles are supposed to like lettuce, tomatoes and broccoli, but ours will eat raw hamburger." Says Jim Duffer, master of ceremonies at Brennan's, who calls the races attired in a green tuxedo: "I can't stand the little beasts. They bite...