Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek Ship and Lotowhite; at Jamaica...
...Year Hill Prince, and Handicap Champion Noor. Right behind them, in anybody's book: the leading three-year-old filly, Next Move, and Calumet's handicap star, Ponder (total winnings: $541,275). Others which had to be given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record for a mile and an eighth. Hill Prince had matched this...
...Noor the favorite at 7 to 10; Hill Prince went off at 7 to 2. Ponder broke characteristically late, along with Noor and Hill Prince. All the early action was up front, where Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's filly, Next Move, was setting a blistering pace, closely followed by Palestinian and Assault. Noor got moving on the turn (see cut), blazed down the stretch to win by a length over Palestinian. Hill Prince was three lengths farther back, with Next Move fourth, Ponder fifth. Noor's drive set a track record of 1:59 4/5 for the mile...
...Jamaica, N.Y., Brookmeade Stable's Greek Ship by half a length over Isidore Bieber's Palestinian for the $57,800 Empire City Gold...
...Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying the conquered territory with the rest of Jordan...