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...typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned by Florida Businessman Fred Hooper. "I knew he was great the first time I put him on a horse," recalls Parke. "I told him to breeze a colt five furlongs in 1 min. 2 sec., and when I looked at my watch I couldn't believe it. It read exactly...
...nursed a long shot (odds: 65-1) named Sherluck to victory in the l½-mile Belmont Stakes. In 1963, aboard a 9-1 shot, Chateaugay, he made up ten lengths to win the Kentucky Derby and realize his boyhood dream. In 1964 Baeza had a falling-out with Hooper, settled it by buying back his contract for $100,000 in cash. He soon got half of that back from one horse alone: Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser, who last year won $568,096, more money than any other two-year-old in history. Jockey Baeza...
Died. Sir Frederic Collins Hooper, 71, managing director since 1948 of Britain's Schweppes Ltd. (quinine water, Bitter Lemon), a bubbly Londoner who left a successful chain store busi ness to put some fizz in the 169-year-old mixer maker, quintupled Schweppes's output and profit with snob appeal advertising featuring Commander Whitehead among the Yanks and veddy British "Schweppigrams" at home;* of a probable heart attack; in London...
Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Chairman of the Department, is studying the effects of high temperatures and pressures on minerals. By measuring the velocity of sound waves in rocks under various pressures, Birch has used seismic soundings to help geologists understand the structure of the earth's crust...
...Real Hooper. Dr. Van Allen is more hopeful. He thinks that careful design of spacecraft, putting fuel, food, batteries and other heavy objects toward the outside as protective shields, will do much to shield astronauts against solar protons without adding much weight. In any case, he says, the peril from flares is not too great. During a 450-day period from October 1959 to February 1961, when he measured protons in space, 21 flares affected the earth. Most of them were not dangerous. But toward the end of November 1960 came three violent solar "events," one of which reached peak...