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...persuade church members to vote for him because "it sure would be nice to have a man with a clear testimony for Jesus Christ representing Arizona and America." Steiger called his opponent a "total plastic politician" and a "dangerous man" who had been "bought and paid for" by a race-track operator who reputedly has Mafia ties. Replied Conlan: "Dirty gutter politics...
Bejeweled Blondes. The natural home of quarter-horse racing is Texas, where ranchers have long enjoyed pitting their fastest horses against the pride of their neighbors. But race-track betting is outlawed in Texas. As a result, the twin capitals of quarter-horse racing−and the site of the All-American Futurity for 17 years−are the adjoining towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse...
Kerner stood down from his judicial duties even before he was tried on charges growing out of race-track kickbacks during his 1961-68 term as Illinois Governor. But he refused to resign. Indeed the House Judiciary Committee in the initial stages of its Nixon study was also thinking about an impeachment of Kerner. Last month, only five days before he went behind bars and one day after his last appeal failed, Kerner finally did resign. In the 14 months since his conviction, Kerner had collected nearly $50,000 in federal...
...sport of kings has been cruel to Jockey Mary Bacon, 25. In the five years that she has worn silks, Mary has broken her back twice, been kidnaped by a race-track "Johnny" and shot at. When Michigan's Hazel Park ruled in 1972 that Mary and her husband, Jockey Johnny, could not both compete, Mary left Johnny and went on riding. One of the few out-of-saddle distractions she has permitted herself was a nude pose for Playboy magazine. But it was all coming together. Two weeks into the spring meeting at New York's Aqueduct...
...biggest clamor was a charge that Bradley had accepted a large campaign contribution and loans from two men who have "underworld connections." Bradley said he had returned the money, and he counter attacked by charging that Yorty himself had visited an imprisoned income tax evader and former race-track operator...