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...been so heavily favored to win racing's Triple Crown. The wonder horse called Secretariat had won impressive victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Still, going into the $150,200 Belmont Stakes, the last and longest (1½ miles) of the three classics, the strapping chestnut colt was bucking the very formidable odds of history...
...Reagan's chief of staff in Sacramento. The riders are Reagan, Clark and Clark's father William, formerly a rancher and the police chief of Oxnard, Calif. In the corner, Clark's gray stetson dangles from a hat rack. Near by, encased in glass, rest the Colt .44 revolver and marshal's badge that belonged to his grandfather Robert Emmet Clark, once the sheriff of Ventura County and a U.S. marshal...
...race, Marfa bothered the field no more than the rainstorm did Sunny's Halo, who broke second from the tenth position and was never worse than second or first over the entire mile and a quarter. Preoccupied with the promise and problems of this one robust chestnut colt, Trainer David Cross had lost most of his clients this year. He started with 35 horses, ended with just three and did not really blame the defectors. Sunny's Halo's groom and best friend, John ("Top Cat") Sears Jr., said, "It's been him, Dave...
...baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle marks on customers' arms as though they were membership cards. Some of Alphabet Town's 15 or so clubs have their own house brands of drugs, like "Lucky Seven" cocaine or such standard heroin varieties as "Poison" and "Colt .45." Employees work strict business hours: there are three eight-hour shifts a day. Each club can gross upwards of $100,000 daily; many offer good employee benefits. In January, one club closed for two weeks to take its entire staff of 30 on a paid vacation to Hawaii...
Fourth and Avenue D is constantly crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...