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Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...
...British fashion). This quirk was not abandoned until 1920, the historic year that Man o' War, fighting for his head all the way, won the Belmont Stakes by 20 lengths and set a world's record. But for the past six years, while a new $30.7 million grandstand was being built, Belmont has existed only as a practice track, and its classic races have been run elsewhere. The worrisome question to track enthusiasts: when Belmont reopens, will it be the same...
...improvement on the old: a four-level, cantilevered viewing stand, rising as high as a ten-story building and stretching a quarter of a mile. The best of Belmont has been retained and refurbished, including the paddock sheltered by a well-trussed, 140-year-old white pine. The new grandstand quarters for the exclusive Turf and Field Club would have been approved by the track's namesake, August Belmont (ne Schonberg), who once declared: "Racing is for the rich...
...challenge to debate because "the only winner of a debate between Republicans would be Lyndon Johnson." He expressed his "great respect" for Nelson Rockefeller, but refused to count him as a rival now because "your opponent is the man in the arena with you, not the man in the grandstand rooting for the man who's in the arena." Although the early opinion polls have made Nixon the heavy favorite over Romney in New Hampshire, he declared that defeat in the Granite State "will not be fatal to either candidate." Yes, he conceded, he must erase his loser...
Gestapo Tactics. To Stony Brook officials, who had not been advised that the raid was planned, it looked like something of a grandstand operation. Not only was there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid...