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...Crooks steered clear of the mines, but after high school he went instead into the brickyards, which were even worse. After a while a new foreman came on the job, the son of the owner. "He was a fancy son of a bitch," Crooks says. "He used a cigarette holder, and it turned out he had been to Harvard grad school. I was really resentful of him at first, but we got to be friends. He introduced me to books...
...race of the year when the two horses broke from the starting gate at New York's Belmont Park for the much-ballyhooed mile-and-a-quarter match race. The contest between the record-breaking three-year-old filly Ruffian, winner in all ten of her starts and holder of the filly's Triple Crown for 1975, and the Kentucky Derby-winning colt Foolish Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs...
...Because its value exceeds the allowable exemption, the car would normally be seized. A clever bankruptcy lawyer could avoid that by arranging for his client to borrow $800 from a finance company, using the car as collateral. If this is done, the car has no value except to the holder of the mortgage-i.e., the finance company-so it will not be taken away. To protect the borrowed $800, the client then deposits it in an S and L account, which is exempt from seizure. After being discharged of his debts by the court, the freshly minted bankrupt withdraws...
...cheap seats sold for $50, and some front-row spots went for $10,000. At those prices, scarcely a ticket holder failed to appear at last week's Manhattan benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The guest of honor of the evening, which starred Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, was First Lady Betty Ford in a flowing purple Halston gown. She was escorted by Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad...
Died. Steve Prefontaine, 24, fast-finishing long-distance runner; of injuries suffered in a midnight auto smashup; near Eugene, Ore. Holder of every American track record above 2,000 meters, the fiercely independent "Pre" was the leading long-distance contender for the 1976 Olympics and was only beginning to peak as a runner...