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...sign on the big board said the track was fast. I loked up at the cloudy sky. Twenty-four American flags whipped in the wind at the top of the grandstand, and eleven more flapped in semi-circle in the parking lot. It was early; the big crowds hadn't come...
...noon the stands were beginning to fill up. Old men and young boys were hawking the Record American, the Herald Traveler, and WilsonWaldo's tip cards at makeshift newsstands underneath the grandstand. I bought a program and walked outside to look at the track...
Upstairs in the grandstand the straw-hatted ushers wearing candycane coats check the tickets of people going into the box-seat section. Most of the trainers and owners reserve box seats in the first few rows. I wandered towards the upper tiers of seats, which are reserved for plebcians and tight-wads...
...that apotheosis. How disgusting. He had such an ego. "I'm the Son of God." ... And his method had no style at all. Compare his cheap performance at the grave-site of Lot-sickening- and that parable of our friend Buddha and the mustard seed. One, just a grandstand exhibition, and the other, beautiful, artistic and profound. The pieces are laid out for you to put together- and the author lets you know from the beginning that what you come up with is your problem...
Though the crews have a grandstand view of the military fireworks, their biggest enemy is boredom. To while away the time, they take part in lifeboat races and play soccer on the broad deck of the largest ship, the British bulk carrier Jnvercargill. They attend church services on the West German motorship Nordwind and watch movies on the Bulgarian freighter Vasil Levsky. The Polish freighter Djakarta even prints stamps for the marooned vessels. Egyptian postal authorities graciously allow the stamps to be used as legal postage; they have become collector's items. Immense amounts of beer are consumed...