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...horse that helped him prove it was a stubborn bay colt named Jamie K., the same Jamie K. that had come within a neck of beating him in the Preakness, and with the same Eddie Arcaro up. In the Belmont last week, after a moderately paced (1:39⅓) mile, Jamie K. and the Dancer left the others behind and made it a two-horse race. Jamie K. had the lead with three-eighths of a mile to go. Could the Dancer catch...
...John Foster Dulles' . . . oral support of Naguib-aided and abetted by Eisenhower's token Colt pistol-in driving out the enemy (British) from the Suez Canal Zone is an indication of the new Republican foreign policy in the Middle East, may I suggest that it appears a little shortsighted. If, with America's approving eye, Naguib with his Nazi-advised army manages to dislodge the British from the Canal Zone, who then defends this vital international gunpowder heap in the future? With the British gone, only two powers are capable of the rough and tumble...
...script: get in front, out of trouble, and stay in front. But this time the Dancer, Jockey Guerin up, was not playing his part of the Derby script. Instead of getting banged early and boxed later, as he had in the Derby, Jockey Guerin kept the smooth-moving grey colt close on the pace, well out of trouble...
...they sat down together for their first meeting, Naguib was startled to see Dulles pull a holstered, .32-calibre Colt automatic from his pocket and place it on the mahogany table. The Secretary laughed and handed the pistol to Naguib, still slightly bewildered. Then he read from a silver plate on the handle: "To General Mohammed Naguib, from his friend, Dwight D. Eisenhower." It was one of the President's personal pistols. "This is to preserve peace with, not fight a war," said Dulles. Naguib smiled and said: "I know...
...later. Running outside again, he had only Dark Star in front of him. Native Dancer had never been whipped-in eleven races Guerin had never given him more than a single hit with the bat. This time Guerin laid on, all the way down the stretch. The big grey colt came pounding on in one of his famous finishes. But this time his drive came too late; at the finish line Dark Star was still leading him, by a head...