Word: jockey
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...while an electric razor buzzed four windows away, kept close watch but could report nothing more than a circumspect round of sightseeing through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann" (Aly's local nickname), Gene burbled, "Cheri, you were wonderful." The Kilcullen villagers watched the holidaying couple good-humoredly, especially after the prince donated ?100 to help build a new school...
...means captured all Argentina's bomb-setters, as another noisy burst at week's end showed. Nor was it yet known who-in or out of the government -set off the bombs in mid-April which inspired the burning by Peronistas of the famed old Jockey Club (TIME, April 27). Said the President: "Other terrorists can always rise. I will combat them with all my force. My job is being a general, and therefore, to fight, and my only desire is to die with my boots...
Fast Company (MGM) is a romantic comedy about a horse that conies in a winner only when the jockey sings to it. Also figuring in the cast: a wealthy racehorse owner (Nina Foch) and an aspiring actress (Polly Bergen) with a one-horse stable, both of whom are pursuing a handsome trainer (Howard Keel). With its strained horseplay and plodding screenplay. Fast Company is strictly an also...
Dark Star still led at the mile mark, with a quarter-mile to go. Some fans found it necessary to take a quick glance at their programs: Park Star was New Yorker Harry Guggenheim's colt, ridden by Jockey Henry Moreno. Correspondent was still second. And where was Native Dancer? It was getting late...
...Jubilant Jockey Moreno, who got every last ounce out of Dark Star-the time was 2:02, just three-fifths of a second off the Derby record-knew that the Dancer was going to win in another pair of strides. "I thought the finish wire was two jumps too far," said Moreno. "But it wasn...