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Native Dancer could and did, though, pounding down the home stretch for the last quarter-mile, the two horses were never more than half a length apart. Reported the Dancer's jockey, Eric Guerin: "After he got in front, he began to loaf, as usual. So I hit him three or four times just to keep him at work." The Dancer stayed on the job long enough to win by a neck in a dashing 2:283/5, one of the fastest Belmont Stakes in history, and just two-fifths off the record set by Count Fleet...
...physicians, and not from a body of politicians? Is it not a tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright racketeers of course) that its members will be good boys and girls and will not loaf on the job? At least teachers do not dine on $11.25 meals, charging them to the tax payer and do not vote themselves tax free raises and expense funds. Is a law constitutional which forces upon teachers a humiliation--that is, the admission that without the pledge to teach...
...sold 1,000,000 loaves of frozen bread in the South, will soon put it on sale in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, the first big step towards national sale. The bread will keep in a home freezer for months, tastes like fresh bread when thawed. Price: 25? a loaf, the same as Arnold's regular bread...
When the Truman Administration abandoned World War II price and wage controls in November 1946, some people predicted $1-a-loaf bread. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. predicted $20-a-pair nylons. Decontrol in 1953 brought forth no such hysterical forebodings, but it was actually a bolder step, because the pressure of rearmament and the Korean war have replaced the 1946 illusion that permanent peace was about to prevail. Although pressure for continued controls was strong, Eisenhower acted on his campaign statement that Government control of prices was not the only or the best way to fight inflation...
Every summer, thousands of college students work famously until they have earned $599, and then suddenly lay down their tools and loaf. They stop short because of an outmoded provision in the tax laws: if they earn over $600 in a year, they cannot be claimed as "dependents" on their parents' income tax returns. This means, in effect, that there is a two or three hundred dollar penalty if students and others supported by their families, surpass $600 in wages...