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...Panama's invitation Ike's press secretary, James Hagerty, went to the isthmus last week to confer with President Ricardo Arias and help set up press and cable arrangements. On White House instructions he also discreetly learned "Dickie" Arias' golf handicap (an impressive two) without revealing Ike's. For his part, President Arias solved the ticklish problem of the presidential suite. He reportedly decided that he himself will occupy it as his conference headquarters...
...Paced smartly by veteran Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Leslie Combs's Nashua romped to an easy two-length victory in the Camden (N.J.) Handicap, won $22,750 and boosted his earnings to a world's record $1,100,365, just $14,605 more than Citation put away before he retired...
Barkley's big chance for the presidential nomination came in Chicago in 1952, but he was 74, and there was great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according...
Almost as if he remembered what a disappointment he had been at Churchill Downs just a year ago, Leslie Combs's four-year-old champion, Nashua, seemed determined to let nothing stop him from winning the $55,200 Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. He stumbled coming out of the starting gate and fell to his knees. Another horse might have quit. Not Nashua. Under Jockey Ted Atkinson's urging, he came on to outlast a fast field and finished a head in front of Alfred...
...worry about. But Weeks-along with Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Presidential Economic Adviser Arthur Burns and others high in the Administration-was worried about the Federal Reserve Board's boost in the discount rate (TIME, April 23). Said Weeks: "The tight money situation might prove to be a handicap in business expansion and sales...