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Aboard Radio Northsea, a ship that broadcasts pop music and news to Western Europe and Britain from just outside the Dutch three-mile territorial limit, Disc Jockey Alan West was playing a tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. "I thought another ship had hit us in the fog," said West, but when he rushed on deck he saw three men in wetsuits heading toward Scheveningen beach in a motor-powered rubber boat. West sped back to his microphone and shouted: "May Day, May Day, this is Radio Northsea. We are on fire...
...waist-to-thigh portion of a man's jeans has been caught in a moment of rakish nonchalance. In the appropriate place, a working four-inch zipper hangs invitingly. Beneath the zipper lies another waist-to-thigh photograph, this one naked save for a pair of white jockey shorts and bearing the logotype of the noted dispose-all artist, Andy Warhol (see ART). As a record-store attraction, the album is positively too dreadful to ignore...
History was made. Calumet Farm's two entries, Bold and Able and Eastern Fleet, set the early pace. Jim French, moving out from the middle of the pack, was bumped so hard, Jockey Angel Cordero Jr. said later, "that I nearly fell off." Far behind him, Canonero II moved from 18th position and streaked for the outside. At the final turn, Jockey Gustavo Avila cut around the fading front runners and booted Canonero II down the stretch to win going away by 3¾ lengths. Jim French finished second, two lengths ahead of Bold Reason. The Kentucky-bred colt...
...plays a five-second segment of an interview with a star of yesteryear every hour on the hour, and asks contestants to call to identify the person. The disc jockey specifies that he will take a certain call, the fourth one, for example...
Professional horsemen have a high opinion of the animal. His jockey said. "I don't think he'll ever get beat unless he falls down." Reggie Cornell, trainer of the Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push...