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Died. Georges Carpentier, 81, light-heavyweight boxing champion from 1920 to 1922, who lost on a fourth-round knockout to Heavyweight Jack Dempsey in 1921 's "Battle of the Century" in Jersey City, boxing's first million-dollar gate; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...time it took to read the previous paragraph, the world's richest horse race was over. The million-dollar quarter-mile All-American Futurity, run last week at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., was won in exactly 21.98 sec. As the ultimate sprint for quarter horses−cowboy mounts bred for brief bursts of speed, often by crossbreeding with thoroughbreds−the Futurity yielded an opulent purse of no less than $330,000 to the winner, a fat 58% more than the $209,600 first prize at the Kentucky Derby. Even the tenth horse, which was scratched, collected...
Except for a $25,000 donation from the track, the rest of the million-dollar purse comes from eager horse owners who ante up nomination fees in the form of eight escalating, nonrefundable installments before the race. In January 1974 more than 1,000 owners started paying for last week's race by putting up $50 each to enter 1,200 quarter horses only a few months old. One hundred and ninety-four stuck it out through the $2,500 fee required to qualify last month for the final trials...
...increase is not limited to the U.S. In Latin America, particularly Argentina, there have been scores of kidnapings by political extremists in the past year. Quite a few of them have netted million-dollar ransoms (one brought $60 million), usually intended for the purchase of terrorist weapons. In Europe, political abductions have multiplied over the past few years in Germany, and kidnapings for money have been concentrated among the wealthier classes in Italy. There have already been 39 Italian cases this year, compared with 41 during all of 1974, and Milan Police Chief Mario Massagrande gloomily says, "I am afraid...
...dancing school, and he has never stopped-dancer in West Side Story and Subways Are for Sleeping, choreographer of Company and Follies. At 32, Bennett is a thin, elfin figure with a short beard. He still works all the time and lives alone. Although he has just signed a million-dollar, three-picture deal with Universal, he collects only $75 a week from his business manager. "I have no possessions," he says. "I don't own this apartment, I have no car or country place, and I do not wish to have anything except my American Express card, which...