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...Longshot special: MINI MIND in the fourth race...

Author: By Thomas R. Ittelson, | Title: Today's Winners At Suffolk Downs | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...surface not nearly so nice and smooth as plasterer Super Plaster Man intended with infallible carpenter level bubble ... not so foolproof as you thought bub, little lumps and ridges up there and lines ... like spines on crests of waves of white desert movie sand each one with MGM shadow longshot of the ominous A-rab coming up over the next crest for only the sinister Saracen can see the road and you don't know how many subplots you left up there Plaster Man, trying to smooth it "all" out ... with your carpenter's level ... to make us look...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: The Electric Kool' Aid Acid Test | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...events of the past few weeks, however, have re-focused almost all student hope on Senator McCarthy's longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. But most in the academic subculture realize that the race will probably end up as the Johnson Administration candidate vs Richard M. Nixon...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: McCarthy Campaign Leads To Student Radicalization | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...winner in the second race combined with an 18-1 longshot in the first race to produce the record daily double payoff of the young Suffolk Downs spring meeting yesterday. The combination of Stanley N and Po' L'il Cappie paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Double Sets Record | 4/25/1968 | See Source »

McCarthy has a longshot chance to deny Johnson the renomination of the Democratic Party. In addition, a good showing by McCarthy may convince Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats in private disagreement with the President that an alternative to Johnson does exist. It may cause President Johnson to moderate his Vietnam policies. It may convince the Republicans that by nominating a dove they will attract a large and well-organized number of Democrats. Finally, the campaign promises to have a good effect on the country by bringing back into the political system those persons whose frustrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy in Massachusetts | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

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