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...coasting to a five-length victory in Florida's $136,600 Flamingo Stakes. The West's champion, Candy Spots, has an even cleaner record: he has won all his five races, and on the same day that Never Bend won the Flamingo, he skirted a four-horse pile-up to win California's $143,300 Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths...
Rice pounded his game opponent to the canvas twice in round one and knocked him through the ropes early in round two before ending the one-sided contest with a crushing left-right combination. The left literally lifted Miller into the air, and a pile-driving right chop laid him flat at the champion's feet...
Most U.S. farmers pile up surpluses through higher yields, but citrus growers create their surpluses by overplanting. When California's postwar population, boom made Los Angeles area orange groves worth $10,000 an acre as housing sites, growers sold off 100,000 acres, then moved north to the San Joaquin Valley or east to Arizona and are planting 125,000 acres more. Florida's citrus growers, who have been moving southward to escape the frost, have drained thousands of acres once suited only for cattle raising. The result, according to Miami Banker Ellis Clark: "The expansion was getting...
...with the case of a house painter. To conduct his defense, K. retains an advocate (Orson Welles). But while the old earwig is mumbling about legal problems, K. sneaks off with his chambermaid (Romy Schneider), a sexy witch with webbed fingers who takes him for a tumble in a pile of old legal papers...
Pingree, sitting on a small pile of the books which take up most of the space in his room, outlined the history of reading the future in the stars. This pseudo-science, he explained, began about 4,000 years ago in Babylonia, where it was used to predict such things as floods, wars, famine, and the fates of kings. Eventually astrology reached Greece and India, and later began to flourish in Egypt. Around 300 B.C. complicated systems of epicycles and eccentrics were devised to explain and predict accurately the motions of the planets. At the same time, the horoscopic skills...