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...maybe, for the plungers who put their money on Cañonero II, which paid $12.80 at O.T.B. as opposed to $8.80 at the track. But for Samuels and O.T.B., the first six weeks of operation have been something less than a lark. Like a mudder on macadam, O.T.B. has been tentatively clomping along to cries of "Foul" from racing commissions, labor unions, track owners and horse breeders. Nevertheless, O.T.B. has so far proved a winner with the group that counts most: the bettors. At Grand Central Station last week, one of nine off-track betting sites in the city...
Miss Luscomb is hardly a Jenny-come-lately to the barricades, a dotty old lady off on a senile lark. Her present politics and life-style are merely extensions of a lifelong devotion to progressive causes, and she conducts her activist's life with grace and dignity. The commune-or "co-op," as the residents prefer to call it-is quiet and orderly; each member has his or her own room and is free to come and go at will. Says Michael Widmer, 32, a Boston journalist and founder of the commune: "At first we were kind of surprised...
...motion"), and at 23 joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. On opening night in London in 1905, part of his act was to chase a careering stagecoach and "tomahawk" a paleface, who turned out to be none other than King Edward VII out on a lark. There were other shows and later movies where he did war-dance bits and attacked wagon trains. "I am not ungrateful for what the white man has given me," says Chief Red Fox, "but the ghosts of my ancestors stalk me at times in the dark and congregate around me when...
Couming, who was asleep when the marshalls entered, "is feeling fine and is happy as a lark," according to his father. The 70-year-old janitor added that Couming wanted the bail money to be raised, "not for his own use, but for the movement...
...small Roman Catholic parochial school in Newbury, Ohio. For the past three years, Father James J. Moran, 65, a former Notre Dame boxing champ, has made unicycling a requirement for passing phys ed at St. Helen's. Though he bought the first cycle on a lark, Moran soon decided that the gadgets are dandy exercise machines as well as preparation for an even greater balancing act. "Kids today have to learn that life is full of hard knocks," he says enthusiastically. Besides, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donates multicolored tires for the cyclers to test, plus tireless promotion...