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...thing is, the butcher wins-on all kinds of horses, on all kinds of tracks. "I try," he explains precisely, "to get my horse to the wire first." Fortnight ago, at New York's Aqueduct, Ussery booted home an astonishing five winners in seven mounts, followed this two days later with a triple. Last week he was a triple winner again, won seven other races, bringing his season's record on the country's toughest, most competitive track to 131, and making him undisputed top jock at the Big A. (Johnny Rotz, in second place, has only...
Integration in Dallas. Two regional Methodist conferences made ecclesiastical history a fortnight ago by naming Negro bishops to head predominantly white areas. In Cleveland, delegates to a Midwest meeting voted 370 to 0 to incorporate Negro churches and pastors, and assigned Bishop James S. Thomas, 45, to head the Iowa area. A native of South Carolina, Bishop Thomas will have headquarters in Des Moines, govern 300,000 Methodists, all but 500 of them white. A few days earlier, in the Northeast, white Methodists also accepted Negro churches into their jurisdiction and appointed Bishop Prince Taylor Jr. of Baltimore to head...
...fortnight, French newspapers and art journals have been sputtering with rage. The ostensible rub, as summed up in the Paris newspaper Libeération, is that "a clique of dealers from overseas has, with the delicacy of a bulldozer and the discretion of an atomic bomb, given the Venice Biennale's most authoritative prize to the 'made-in-U.S.A.' stuff one calls 'pop art.' France won not a single prize of any importance. So much the better. French art has nothing in common with this trash." Hotheadlined Les Lettres Francaises: AMERICAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST...
PUBLIC SAFETY Are Hatpins Enough? Worried about muggers and other molesters, a pretty Manhattan secretary named Arlene Del Fava armed herself with a switchblade knife. She was just in time. While walking home a fortnight ago, she was attacked by a man who, she suspected, was a rapist, and she fought him off with her knife. Result: the police arrested him-and her. Reason: New York's stiff Sullivan Law bans switchblade knives. Up for trial this week, Victim Del Fava, 27, faces a maximum penalty of seven years in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...Leaders. Nine issues in particular have spurred the 30 stocks that make up the Dow-Jones average. The greatest upward momentum was provided by American Telephone & Telegraph, whose shares have moved from 691 to 741 since they were split a fortnight ago. Chrysler and General Motors have also been front runners, helped by last week's report that U.S. automakers built 13% more cars in June than in the same month last year. All those cars sent up demand for gas and oil, buoying the shares of Texaco, Jersey Standard and California Standard. The other significant gainers...