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...metal memories, magazine husband, a deck of cards missing the jack and the ace--he puts together the phrases and creates a person, the haunted Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, a being made of objects. "Love Minus Zero/ No Limit" is a beautiful love song fashioned out of horsemen, pawns, hammer winds, doctors, bridges, statues, fire, ice, dime stores and bus stations, bankers' nieces and wise...
...years of merdeka - freedom. In a mile-long procession and countless do-it-yourself fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
Then a strange thing happened. One by one the public handicappers, racing writers, and horsemen decided that Damascus was better than these others, that Damascus was the horse to beat for the Triple Crown...
...horsemen complain that New York State benefits more from racing than any other state in the U.S.-while doing less to encourage the sport. Out of every dollar that passes through the parimutuel windows at Aqueduct and Saratoga, 100 goes to the state, and 50 to the tracks for operating expenses and purses. The state's cut last year came to $66 million; at the tracks, $15 million was available for purses after expenses. Much of that had to be allotted to occasional (some 90 per year) high-priced stakes races to which the track contributes anywhere from...
...bill that was before the New York legislature would have reduced the state's take by 10 of every dollar bet, thereby giving the tracks another $3,300,000 a year for purses. When the state assembly adjourned without even reporting it out of committee, the horsemen struck. For some, struggling to get their horses ready for big stakes such as the Kentucky Derby, only four weeks away, the boycott was a severe training setback. But horsemen insisted that the principle was worth the price. Said Johnny Nerud, who trains two top Derby prospects: "The people up in Albany...