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...Jamaica, last year's Preakness winner, Faultless, carried Calumet's devil-red and blue silks home by a nose in the Gallant Fox Handicap ($60,300). The horse he beat was his stablemate, Fervent (second money: $15,000). Calumet Farm's receipts...
...electronic trickery he can make the controls and instruments in the cockpit behave as if a fuel line had clogged, or as if a deadly crust of ice were forming on the wings and tail surfaces. He can knock out the radio or devil it with static. He can kindle a fire in the baggage compartment or chill the passengers by knocking out the cabin heating system...
...knew the Southern admiration for virility: "If you will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...
Clearly illustrating the angel-devil attitude of "The New Student" is a short, hard-hitting, and forced broadside by Reuben Hersh called "The Liberal's Dilemma." It states the thesis that both major political parties, whatever they profess, are working hand-in-hand to further the interests of militarists and monopolists at home and abroad. This position is dwelt on at greater length by the editors in an article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression...