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...Boston neurosurgeon who once saved Nerud's life, Dr. Fager was beaten by only two horses in his three-year career. Successor nipped him two years ago in the Champagne Stakes. Damascus, Horse of the Year in 1967, beat him twice - with the aid of a "rabbit" (pacesetter) named Hedevar. In their two other matches, Hedevar was stabled, and Dr. Fager whipped Damascus handily. Dr. Pager's other defeat was in last year's Jersey Derby, which he won by 61 lengths only to be dis qualified because Jockey Manuel Ycaza permitted him to cut across...
...race, in its climactic phase at least, could hardly fail to engage the politician's imagination. The times seemed made for Nixon, yet despite his urbane demeanor and finely honed organization, there remained until the end the possibility that tension and fatigue might combine to bring out the rabbit-punching infighter that the "new Nixon" had kept so firmly in control. For very different reasons, Humphrey's battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case of rigor mortis...
...third live vaccine, an injectable one produced in Belgium and grown in rabbit-kidney cells, is being extensively tested by Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Because of its head start in Europe, this may be the world's first licensed rubella vaccine. Additional U.S. testing will probably take a year...
...Wolfe's own style. Fun to read, it is still frenetic, hopped up with exclamations, interjections aplenty. It is a hey-look-no-hands way of writing. No character can come to life in this style. There is, ultimately, Wolfe's style operating in a vacuum, doing tricks, pulling rabbits out of hats. And only later does one realize that--as on some acid trip--both rabbit and hat were imaginary...
Paul Ford plays against an invisible rabbit called Harvey...