Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political graft, corruption in your judiciary, race riots, the burning of your own country's flag in public, the murder of prominent citizens including your own President, drug addiction-you name it and you've got it. No thanks; we'll keep our Royal Family and all the decadence that goes with it. You keep your Black Panthers and the almighty dollar...
...operational for several years. If the cycle of ABM-MIRV goes on unabated, both nations will be tempted to spend great sums of money that will not really increase their security; the new weapons may, in fact, diminish safety. The prospect of a new lap in the arms race could also decrease the chances for serious agreement during the strategic arms-limitation talks that the U.S. hopes to begin with the U.S.S.R. next month. ABM development has not yet done that. The Soviets have not interpreted Safeguard as sufficiently hostile to keep them from taking part in the discussions...
...vowed: "Look for me under the arc lights, boys, I'll be back." Now, thumping the promotional drums as loudly as ever, the old Barnum of baseball has returned-but not to baseball. He is the new president and part owner of East Boston's Suffolk Downs race track...
...what happens on the track. On opening day three months ago, Veeck parlayed the current publicity for girl jockeys into a $10,000 Lady Godiva Handicap ("Eight fillies on eight fillies"). Two weeks ago, he introduced the $252,750 Yankee Gold Cup, America's richest race on grass...
Technically, the race was a fiasco; among other things, Veeck allowed 14 starters-at least two too many for comfort on the narrow track. Still, he insists that the event was remarkably successful as a trial run. "After all," he says, "we're showing people that we're trying to improve the quality of the sport in this area." Quality, in fact, is the keynote of Veeck's latest pitch. "You shoot off your fireworks and pull your stunts," he says, "but all that is frosting on the cake. Great racing is the thing...