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...more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. This year special spice...
...Green, 32, son and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia political boss who died in 1963, polled only 35%, despite glittering endorsements from Senators John Tunney and Edward Kennedy and the tardy backing of Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Green ran most strongly in black wards and well-to-do Chestnut Hill...
...conference was scheduled for 6 p.m., but the hour came and went and nothing happened. Some reporters wandered about the palace while others went out into the beautiful Elysée garden, which was covered with rich green umbrellas of chestnut trees in the final dazzle of bloom. A light, misty rain coated the grass and clung to the dark blue jackets of the Garde Républicaine. At 6:30, loudspeakers crackled that the two men would appear at 7. British journalists began to fret about some unexpected "difficulty." A French correspondent grumbled: "The general was always on time...
...screaming. "Hey Joe, when are we gonna go?" Kids were sprawled out all over the place, Rich Szaro was kicking a ball around, and everyone else was playing solitaire. Finally Donovan called Grayline and they said. "Keep your shirt on, we're getting you a bus from Chestnut Hill and it'll be there soon." He thought this would be great but when two hours, three hours, four hours later and still no Grayline, he wasn't quite so sure...
...Dorchester chapter of the United Farmworkers has organized a march from Newton to Dow Chemical's office in Chestnut Hill at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow to protest the injunction...