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...Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where patrons may munch such Continental delicacies as escargots and bouillabaisse Marseillaise ($4.25), served by bus boys and bellhops in jockey silks...
...established radio contact with each other, and Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart, knew it would be possible for the two cosmonauts to jockey their capsules even closer together by using manual controls...
...classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost of $700,000. He anchored the Bon Jour a bit more than three miles off Stockholm in international waters, put 20-kw. Radio Nord on the air 18 months...
...tightly bunched 26-horse field pounded into Tattenham Corner, Long-shot (33-1) Romulus clipped the heels of the French-owned colt Crossen. Off flew French Jockey Maurice Larraun, down went Romulus-and in seconds the track was covered with seven prostrate jockeys and riderless horses. One horse broke a leg, six jockeys were injured-four seriously-and the casualties included the 9-2 favorite, Hethersett. The eventual winner: Larkspur, a 22-1 choice owned by the U.S.'s Raymond Guest...
Died. Charles Louis ("Clem") McCarthy, 79, the U.S.'s best-known horse-race announcer, an Irish horse auctioneer's son who, though thwarted at becoming a jockey, made the nation thrill to the turf's most exciting moments by the gravel tremor of his voice, particularly his annual (1928-50) calling of the Kentucky Derby; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Only once did Clem err, swapping first-and second-place finishers in the 1947 Preakness because they wore look-alike silks. Not the man to flinch, he rasped: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a horrible mistake...