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...swine." Thousands of others cheered. After the play, Queen Elizabeth left the theater alone, and was greeted by another chorus of boos. She looked startled and dismayed. It was probably the first time that British royalty had been so publicly humiliated at home since Edward VII was hissed at Epsom in the last century after rumor involved him as a corespondent in a divorce case...
...even the pros. For amateurs it amounts to suicide. Yet every year, on "Black Sunday"-the day before the pro races start-thousands of begoggled young maniacs tear around the course, hoping to crack a ton. The first casualty last week was a 19-year-old bank clerk from Epsom, who did not even pause to check into his hotel before he wheeled his bike onto the course; he hurtled into a stonewall and was killed instantly. Within 24 hours another amateur was dead, and 20 more were in the hospital. Traffic cops gave up trying to slow down...
...field in years (11 of the 26 horses had never won a race). Owned by Paris Hotelman Francois Dupré and a stablemate of Match II, which won last year's $125,000 Washington, D.C., International, Relko picked up $98,950 for his afternoon's outing at Epsom. > Britain's Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting, hilly course at a record average speed of 72.4 m.p.h. The 1962 world racing Champion, Hill was trailing the Lotus of Scotland's Jimmy Clark...
Derby Day usually empties the House of Commons as Cabinet ministers, backbenchers, and the Opposition, uniformed in cutaways and grey toppers, flock to Epsom Downs. But last week, politics kept all but a handful of M.P.s from witnessing a spectacular seven-horse collision at the 182nd running of the Derby. In London, the Commons was jammed as the Tory government opened a two-day debate on the Common Market. In the constituencies of West Derbyshire and Middlesbrough West, the Tories were desperately trying to end their string of by-election defeats...
...worst accident in the 183-year history of Britain's Epsom Derby...