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...garnered several opinions. First--Arts And Letters came closer to being a great horse with greater distance. Second--should this game chestnut be upset in the Travers, the defeat would rank with the loss of Gallant Fox and Whichone to Jim Dandy. Mel Heimer's books--Inside Racing and Pittsburg Phil--are racing classics and his opinions were ably proved by the running of the race...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Horse of the Year | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

...contrast, Jones, a Negro steelworker's son from Pittsburg, Texas, is a happy-go-lucky prankster whose speed (9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash), disconcerting agility and uncanny ability to catch a football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Winner Take All | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Though McCarthy won the April presidential primary with the help of a substantial organization, most liberals are not hopeful that they will triumph over the entrenched machines. In the East, Philadelphia Mayor Tate runs "the forces of evil" as one McCarthy worker described it and in the West, Pittsburg Mayor Barr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Liberal Challenge: State by State | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

NIKKI PATRICK Pittsburg, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...same, TIME correspondents from Albany, Ga., to Youngstown, Ohio, from Pompano Beach, Fla., to Pittsburg, Calif., compiled a depressing dossier of destruction: 5,117 fires, 1,928 homes and shops wrecked or ransacked, 23,987 arrests throughout the nation, and $39,544,205 in damage to property (see BUSINESS).* In all, 72,800 Army and National Guard troops were called to duty. Yet riot-connected deaths totaled only 43-no more than in Detroit alone last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAMPAGE & RESTRAINT | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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