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...tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle, it is 38 ft. higher than at the start and finish. Jockey Willie Shoemaker still insisted that Tom Rolfe had a chance. "This colt is hickory," said The Shoe...
...salty seas. In freezing, he learned, the ice crystals form separately from the brine, then melt down as fresh water. One important advantage of this kind of desalinization is that it takes less power to freeze than to heat. A prototype plant, developed by Zarchin and built by Colt Industries Inc. of the U.S., is now in operation at the Red Sea port of Elath...
...Bret Hanover: the $70,000 Little Brown Jug, harness racing's best-known contest for pacers; at Delaware, Ohio. Winner of 42 out of 45 starts and $420,403, the three-year-old colt won the first one-mile heat by 3¼ lengths in 1 min. 57 sec.-a new world record for a ½-mile track-took the second heat...
...only are most of Watts's pillaeed stores still closed, but the slum is still without a single restaurant, bowling alley, roller rink or movie theater (the nearest cinema is a 60?, four-mile round-trip bus ride away). Men loll in clusters on front porches drinking Colt .45 beer. When a white man passes, a lanky teen-ager taunts him: "Better not be here at 5. That's when the riot's gonna start all over again." A police car drives by, and no one on the sidewalk flicks a glance in its direction; it does...
...Rolfe: the $128,100 American Derby, by 2½ easy lengths, at Arlington Park; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Owned by Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...