Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a slow start that in the backstretch Dike loped to a five-length lead. With a half-mile to go, Jockey Braulio Baeza eased Arts and Letters through an opening and went to the front. Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money of $104,050 and new status...
After the Ohio Appeals Board cut some $2.2 million out of the Cleveland school budget by slashing property valuations in 1965, Calkins started the special PACE study of new ways to get money into the city schools...
...April, 1965, two months after the tax study was started, Calkins resigned as PACE president, moved from Shaker Heights into Cleveland, and jumped into the race for one of four seats on the Cleveland School Board...
Since then, Calkins' record has been surprisingly consistent with the outlines he set during the PACE days. During the campaign and after the election, he emphasized the same PACE issues. Cleveland needed better schools, more money, closer cooperation with industry...
...Congressional testimony, which has become more frequently in the last year, Calkins has again stressed the problems that came out of the old PACE study. In 1967, he told the Senate subcommittee on education the Senate subcommittee on education that inner-city schools could work if they had enough money and enough good teachers...