Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute when it learned that Bunche was scheduled to speak...
Calumet Farm did it again last week. Wistful, a sleek chestnut filly trained by Calumet's Ben and Jimmy Jones. (TIME, May 30), charged through the stretch at Belmont Park to win the Coaching Club American Oaks by a half length. The victory stamped Wistful, an odds-on favorite, as easily the best three-year-old filly in the U.S.; it also cinched another $48,700 for Calumet Farm...
...Garden State Park, N.J., chestnut Palestinian won the $50,000-added Jersey Stakes, the race-of-the-week for colts, beating pace-making Olympia. His time for the mile and a quarter, 24 4/5, broke the track record set by Citation in 2:03 in the same race last year...
...Jones's first Derby winner. Several months later, Ben was sitting in a box at Chicago's Arlington Park when Millionaire Warren Wright stopped by and said: "Telephone me tonight." Wright wanted Ben Jones as the triggerman for his then not-too-successful Calumet Farm...
...speed unless he is restrained. Because of his terrific speed, cautious Ben Jones insists that Coaltown wear a quarter-inch pad of piano felt between hoof and shoe?just in case his feet start stinging. Coaltown, who has more crowd-appeal than Citation, at Florida's Hialeah Park last winter equaled the world record for a mile-and-an-eighth (1 :47 3/5). Then at Gulfstream Park, under a tight hold, he equaled the mile-and-a-quarter record...