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...Kuan Yew is also considering making Singapore available as a rest spot for dollar-laden U.S. troops from Viet Nam. The most intriguing proposal, however, is for a gambling and tourist resort on Pulau Sajahat ("Naughty Island") off Singapore's coast. This Asian pleasure dome would feature greyhound racing, nightspots and hotels, could double Singapore's 90,000 tourists a year...
American Machine & Foundry has several bidders for its seven-train mono rail, which cost $5,500,000 to erect but will go for about $1,000,000. For $5,000 each, Greyhound has already sold all 62 of its 54-passenger glider trains to 29 buyers, including Mack Trucks, the University of Connecticut, several amusement parks and the city of Stamford, Conn. Borden Co. will pay about $35,000 to the Wisconsin pavilion for the world's largest cheese 34,591-lb., 14½-ft.-long cheddar, which the company plans to haul in a refrigerated "cheesemobile" and display...
...Advocate has a short story in must be "Intimacy" by George Teter, but the designation is debatable. The action takes places in the memory and fancy of a drowsy, musing passenger on a ramshackle Greyhound crossing the Rockies. A girl lies "well-wedged" against him in the sweaty bus, and as they travel toward California he slowly loses her, in muddled, morbid imaginings, to "a hardfaced fellow with protuberant eyes" sitting across the aisle. Metaphors incubate by the dozen in Teter's fecund prose, sometimes overgrowing it altogether. But Teter's style is more inventive and exuberant than turgid...
Talk about greyhound racing to a horseman, and his lip curls in contempt. "Outdoor roulette. The numbers game -for gamblers and rubes," he sneers, recalling the days when Al Capone and Frank Nitti ran the action and anything went: switching dogs, doping them, filling them full of water to slow them down, sticking thorns in their feet. Some of the old flamboyance still persists in Britain, where the whole country was buzzing last week over the dognapping of Hi Joe, the favorite for next June's Greyhound Derby. But in the U.S. these days, dog racing is almost respectable...
Trick & Zip. Greyhounds usually start racing at the age of 18 months, after anywhere from four to six months of training. Explains one handler: "You begin by tying a live, kicking rabbit to the end of a pole. You swing the pole around, keeping the rabbit just ahead of the pup. He gets real anxious, and finally you let him catch the rabbit." Next, the dog graduates to chasing a plastic bunny -like Swifty, the mechanical rabbit at the track. Bad habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris...