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Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
...glory, but all the habitable houses are full and so are two new tourist courts with a capacity of 200. Many arthritics, unable to find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...
...Henry Wallace . . . crystal-gazing crackpot. ... A harmless kind...
Landmark. As Oxnard grew (1945 pop.: 18,979), Lucy's lone bawdyhouse expanded into a half-block of frame buildings, each well furnished, neatly painted and with window boxes full of geraniums. In Ventura County she became as well known as Oxnard's huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions...
...Ilsley was quick to make one thing crystal clear: the Government was going to strike off some of the shackles that heavy wartime taxes had placed on private enterprise. With the statistical gobbledegook pared away, this is what...