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Harvard participation in such an event would involve several problems, however. For one thing, the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports hasn't decided If Harvard can compete, as many of the Mahout (drivers) probably would come from the African Junior E League, which has dubious amateur standing. Also, since the racing would be done in the Fall, many western schools would probably have Spring Training, something the Ivy League finds distasteful. Then, of course' the ageless problem of ticket distribution would present an explosive policy decision...
...Coast Guard, whose mahout is Lt. Jr. Grade Arthur Moore, is currently the favorite on the basis of three years racing experience (we don't know where, though) on the elephant Whitey...
Back home in Cumberland, Maine's cigar-chomping ex-Republican Governor Horace Hildreth, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, amiably tried to bulldoze a baby elephant, flown to the U.S. as a gift from some of Hildreth's Pakistani admirers. If Amateur Mahout Hildreth can polish up by August, his pet may accompany him then to the G.O.P. National Convention in San Francisco as an alternate to an alternate delegate...
Three-Ring Circus. In his capacity as mahout of the Republican elephant, Len Hall has one of the most sensitive jobs in politics. As G.O.P. chairman, Hall is the producer of a circus with three rings: the National Committee, which handles the presidential and vice presidential campaigns and maps out overall party strategy, and its two auxiliaries on Capitol Hill, the Senate and House Campaign Committees, which concentrate on local congressional campaigns...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...