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Such actions might have been laughed off by the Alemánistas as mere grandstand plays or as signs of the new President's personal eccentricities. But Ruiz Cortines soon showed that he was out to clean up government from top to bottom. He abruptly ordered all treasury payments stopped while government contracts were reexamined. His Communications Minister reported getting a bill for one 75-mile highway that had been registered as completed and even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called...
...four out of ten races, blithely coming in last one week and finishing first the next. Last week, finally entered in the Hambletonian, trotting's annual classic, the fickle filly again kept a crowd of some 20,000 guessing, including city slickers who jammed the gaily canopied grandstand at Good Time Park in Goshen, N.Y. In the first heat, Helicopter lost ground by breaking her gait, coasted in 17th in a field of 23 (if three different trotters win the Hambletonian's scheduled three heats, the classic's winner is decided by a run-off heat held...
...permission to stay in England ("I'm asking for the fundamental right to work"). Released and told to get out of the country (his visitor's permit had expired), he went back to the palace and holed up for the night between cardboard sheets underneath a coronation grandstand. A bobby roused him at 2 a.m. and took him to jail. Brought to court this week, he was bound over to police custody while the Home Office debates his case...
...break from the gate, a brown colt cut in fast from an outside post position, making a strong bid for the rail and the early lead. It was Dark Star, 25-1. As the horses swept past the grandstand for the first time, it was Dark Star in front, with Correspondent a close second...
...Long a heavy favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, the undefeated Dancer is scheduled to stretch his legs at a mile and an eighth this week in the $100,000 Wood Memorial. The Wood should give a much fuller answer to the question before the grandstand...