Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice from Detroit. Whereas in Pittsburgh Ike had flown to the voters' mountain, three nights later the mountain moved to him. At Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 40 Eisenhower advocates from the capital area, 60 more brought in from around the U.S. by Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon, gathered for a "press conference." Though Ike knew that his audience (it included ex-Yankee Phil Rizzuto, John Roosevelt, Medal of Honorman "Commando" Kelly, onetime Ambassador Lewis Douglas) was sympathetic, questions had not been screened...
Last week Nashua went to the post in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. It was his 30th start, and it was to be his last. Whatever happened, Combs had decided, it was time to retire the horse to stud. Nashua made a lordly farewell. He galloped the two-mile Gold Cup distance in 3.20! for a new American record and won going away. With the Gold Cup's $36,600 purse tucked away, Nashua retired with earnings of $1,288,565-the richest horse that ever lived...
...YORK, October 19--Pete Reider and Jim Schlaeppi took their places, in a very minor way, beside sports immortal Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels today in Columbia's Van Cortlandt Park...
Columbia and Penn should combine to become the varsity cross country team's seventeenth consecutive victory this afternoon when the three teams meet on New York's Van Cortlandt Park course at 3:30. However, the Lion is expected to exhibit a good deal of fight before capitulating...
...Crimson's aces Pete Reider and Dave Norris to form. The varsity has the depth of the three teams, and this depth should provide the margin of victory although the course is five miles long, eight-tenths of a mile longer than the varsity's home Franklin Park course...