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Canal Turn (where the horses must turn so sharply that they almost double back on their tracks). By the time the field straggled past the grandstand (halfway through the 4½-mile race), only five horses were still in the running...
...recent years, though the clubhouse and grandstand look a little cramped and shabby compared to modern plants, the Graw has still offered good racing; in 1947 Citation ran and won the first race of his career there. But competition from Delaware Park and New Jersey's Garden State was already drawing customers away. By 1949, to keep from going deep in the red, Havre de Grace was forced to turn over some of its allotted racing days to Pimlico...
...seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...
From their seats in the upper grandstand of Manhattan's vast Polo Grounds, they faced home plate and, above it, rising over the top of the oval grandstand, a row of dingy apartment houses on Coogan's Bluff. In one of these houses, a young Negro, with a .45 pistol he had found in Central Park, was preparing for a celebration all by himself; he had saved his only bullet for July...
Down the Barrel. At Quantico, the President-whose visit to the Marines was long overdue-saw a thunderous show. From a canvas-covered grandstand, he watched marines storm objectives with tanks, flame throwers, bazookas, phosphorous grenades and 500-m.p.h. bombing attacks. A Marine major kept up a breezy ringside commentary, improving the slower moments by hinting broadly, for the President to hear, that the Marines could do even better with more equipment. A simulated carrier attack by seven banana-shaped helicopters demonstrated how troops could land behind enemy forts and disgorge their equipment in 30 seconds...