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...breakneck straightaway dash to the wire, both favorites were left at the post, hopelessly beaten-for it is at the start, with jockeys flailing and horses driving hard, that quarterhorse races are won. Winner by a remarkable 1½ lengths was a lightly regarded chestnut colt named Pokey Bar, who shrugged off a 4-m.p.h. headwind and streaked across the dinky course in a record 20.1 sec. Pokey Bar returned $17.80 on a $2 win ticket, earned Owner Hugh Huntley of Madera, Calif., his.second All-American victory in three years, and the fat first-place purse...
...unwilling or unable to pay his fine could work it off in jail at about $2.50 a day. Postwar laws boosted fines in proportion to the lira's value of 620 to the dollar, but set the price of a day's work in the pokey at a measly 64?. The latest revision of the jail scale retroactively boosts the value of a day at hard labor to $8. Wardens all over Italy spent most of a week working over their bookkeeping, figuring out which cons had already paid off their debts to society. Top time savers turned...
...first." said a patrolman. "But then he started acting like Napoleon, saying he demanded Jade Beach, he demanded the right to drink beer in the street, he demanded this and that." With the aid of a utility-truck ladder, Dalluge was pulled from the traffic light and off to pokey, given a 70-day sentence for inciting a riot and resisting arrest. Next morning he was thinking of home and mother. "What'll she think?" he asked nervously. "Do you suppose she's heard...
...fakes more credentials, enters a Trappist monastery. When the Trappists find him too secular, to contemplate, they gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins the Royal Canadian Navy as a doctor, requests active service, performs spectacularly as a battle surgeon in Korean waters, gets his name and picture in the papers, finds himself exposed...
Quiet at Home. In the pokey with Siqueiros are 130 other veteran Reds and agitators. The list is a Who's Who of trouble: Demetrio Vallejo, railroad union strike leader, Communist Leader Dionisio Encinas, Red-lining Newspaperman Filomeno Mata. The Mexican constitution states that for such crimes as social dissolution the interval between indictment and trial can be no longer than twelve months. Yet Unionist Vallejo has been in jail for 20 months without trial, and some of the others have been out of action even longer...