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During the evening session, Walt W. Resow, chairman of the Policy Planning Council of the State Department, and Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government at Harvard, supported the administration viewpoint in a meeting on the making of American foreign policy. In response, Stanley H. Horseman, professor of Government at Harvard, attached Resow on his presentation of America's actions in Vietnam...
That was probably the kiss of death. Over the past 15 years only three favorites have won at Churchill Downs. The wildest speculator on Wall Street would boggle at the boodle that has gone down the drain. Winning the Kentucky Derby may be every horseman's dream, but it is a munificent obsession...
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...
Besides, as any horseman knows, the best horse does not necessarily win the Kentucky Derby-not by a long shot. The start is a cavalry charge, the tight turns at Churchill Downs are treacherous, and the big field always includes a handful of no-account horses, whose owners can forever brag, "My horse ran in the Derby." They never win, but they clutter up the course. Then, the Derby being the Derby, there are bound to be ways of losing that nobody has thought up yet. Jockey Shoemaker should know. Seven years ago he hit on a dandy himself. Aboard...
...that's charades, to non-swells) has been the In sport at society dos. But Florida's best-dressed Jean Harvey Vanderbilt has a new one, a sort of pin-the-tag-on-the-horsy. "Naming a yearling can be a wonderful icebreaker," says the wife of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And they already have quite a collection of monikers for their just-named two-year-olds. There's Kiss of Death, a daughter of Femme Fatale, Gone Goose, by Crafty Admiral out of Sitting Duck, and Shakedown Cruise, by Sailor out of Plucky Maid...