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Brooks won the 1949 Kentucky Derby on Ponder, was aboard Citation when the long-tailed Triple Crown champion won the 1951 Hollywood Gold Cup to become racing's first millionaire horse. But Brooks is best known for his knack with "problem horses" that other jockeys have written off. Shrewd, observant and enormously strong (his biceps are almost as big around as his thighs), he is an expert with the whip, once whaled a horse 50 times to win a race that lasted just 1 min. 8 3/5 sec. Another time, at his wife's suggestion, he climbed aboard...
...stirred no enthusiasm in many G.O.P. ward leaders. Then why didn't Daley wallop Adamowski good? Apparently, a lot of Chicagoans were restive about Daley's tax increases, the latest of which was a 3% boost in real estate taxes. Adamowski's fellow Republicans could well ponder what might have happened if they had put up a stronger candidate...
Gaullist aides began to ponder ways to get him back into the legislature, where, if elected, he was likely to become majority leader. Trouble was, no Gaullist faction in France itself wanted him. But at last a constituency was found where Debre seemed unlikely to lose. Last week the former Premier gulped hard and accepted a bid to run for office on Reunion Island, a tiny French dot in the Indian Ocean nearly 6,000 miles from Paris...
...their warships maneuvered miles apart. France and Brazil at week's end seemed in no danger of trading shots. But Frenchmen, who each year eat 2,500 tons of lobster, nearly a third of it imported from such lobstering grounds as Brazil's, were forced to ponder an unsettling choice of loyalties-palate or patrie-and ask themselves, what price grandeur...
...abroad-the now waning tax advantages, the cheap labor-but those are often just very good excuses for what the stars, producers and directors want to do anyway: get out of decaying Hollywood and go off to foreign playgrounds for a jolly good time. Hollywood historians are left to ponder whether the films have taken the people away or vice versa...