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DURING THE HARNESS racing season, the gamblers of Buffalo, N.Y.--the adolescent mafioso would-be's and syphilitic has-beens--can take a bus going to Batavia Downs to "maybe someday hit it big." Batavia isn't known for much else--it certainly isn't a very likely setting for...
He had a passion about water, having seen rivers dry up in summer and sweep everything before them in spring floods. His first years in Congress were spent on bills to harness the Colorado, and the first thing he did after he bought his ranch was to put in a...
On a more or less typical working day this summer, Harness-Racing Driver Hervé Filion finished five races at New Jersey's Freehold Raceway and flew by chartered plane to New York's Yonkers Raceway for four more starts. Then, still wearing his red, white and blue...
By late December all that hustle had brought Filion close to his avowed goal of 600 victories for 1972. It had also ensured that his winnings for the year would top $800,000, dwarfing the income of most of the world's top professional sportsmen. Eight hundred thousand dollars...
One of the solid virtues of The Best and the Brightest is the way Halberstam breaks down the tragedy of Viet Nam policy, showing it in slow motion. In fact, at first it all went deceptively slowly, a careless drift into a game of "counterinsurgency and special forces." To support...