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...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...
...good run to thoroughbred flat racing, which drew 34 million customers in 1960. And along with its burgeoning attendance records and parimutuel handles, harness racing had something special to boast about: its own Man o' War, a horse named Adios Butler, thought by many to be the best pacer ever...
...Butler was picked up at the 1957 Harrisburg, Pa., yearling sales for a paltry $6,000. Since then, he has won 26 out of 39 races, captured $355,844 in purses, brought $600,000 from his sale to a syndicate. Last year he became the world's fastest pacer by stepping off a 1:54.6 mile at Lexington, Ky., breaking the 1:55 record set in 1938 by his granddad, Billy Direct...
...campaign trail last week, Matheson was covering the district in a compact station wagon, and Udall was flying his own Piper Tri-Pacer. But with the whole Udall clan pitching in for Mo, Matheson was beginning to feel the pinch. "I feel like I'm running against a relay team," he said. "No sooner do I get through with one Udall than he hands the baton to a brother...
...trying to get a library going. When the fighting started, Corrigan was in the air more than ever, flying leaflet-dropping missions over enemy lines as well as his movie runs. He distrusted the rickety planes he had to ride, once pointed to a battered single-engined Piper Tri-Pacer and advised a newsman: "I wouldn't fly in that for a million dollars." But when Cor igan got ready to deliver movies to the small town of Hong Sa, the Tri-Pacer was the only plane around. Just after takeoff, the engine quit. The plane crashed into...