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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opening Blow. The first race, finally run at Aqueduct on the Fourth of July last year, was part disaster, part triumph. The disaster occurred coming out of the starting gate, when another horse wheeled into Secretariat and knocked him sideways. "If he wasn't so strong," the jockey said afterward, "he would have gone right down." The triumph was that after being slammed completely out of contention, Secretariat closed with a rush, made up seven or eight lengths in the last quarter-mile, and finished fourth...
Early Foot. Whatever the reason for failure at the Wood Memorial, there was no hint of difficulty at the Derby or the Preakness. Secretariat set a Derby record (1:5⅜). As usual, he broke out of the gate about even with the rest of the field. Then he promptly dropped back to last in the field of 13. Since he was the 3-to-2 favorite, he must have given many thousands of backers an anxious moment. But that seems to be the strategy that he and Turcotte, his steady rider for most of the past year, have worked...
...charges against the President for a new and formidable forum: the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. McCord did not claim that he had had any direct communication with the President before or after the bugging and burglarizing of Democratic National Headquarters at the Water gate last June 17. Always, McCord's allegations of presidential concern involved word from an intermediary...
...with the California Angels, the return to Baltimore's Memorial Stadium for the first time in two years was something of a homecoming. Less than two miles away, however, Johns Hopkins University was host to Navy in another homecoming game that outdrew the Orioles at the gate- 8,200 fans to 7,177. Robby and the Orioles need not have felt slighted. The big campus contest was nothing so mundane as baseball. It was America's oldest organized sport: lacrosse...
Consider the precedents this building sets for the Yard: Jordan Marsh has long wanted a Cambridge site. The Golden Arches of one-all-too-familiar franchise would certainly brighten the Dexter Gate. And HoJo's orange roof would assuredly rise only nine feet above the ground. Picture the parades of electric golf carts commuting daily across the river through Harvard Square and replacing the Buildings and Grounds trucks that will no longer have access to the Yard, once the new library narrows passage between Houghton and Widener...