Word: race
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...Negro was denied admission to Kentucky's graduate school in 1941 because of his race...
Rarely in its 101-year history had the Belmont Stakes so thoroughly rated its billing as the "Test of the Champion." Never, in fact, had the classic race hosted the likes of Majestic Prince, the only horse in history to enter the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont undefeated. Going into last week's mile-and-a-half Belmont, the last and longest leg of racing's Triple Crown, the strapping chestnut colt had run and won nine races in a row. Had he won, he would have been the first thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown...
Prince out of-the race and give him a rest. He was overruled by the horse's owner, Canadian Oil Millionaire Frank McMahon. Trainer Elliott Burch had no such fears. As if to prove Arts and Letters' stamina, he entered him in the $116,500 Metropolitan at Aqueduct a week before the Belmont. The horse won convincingly and thus, said Burch, went into the Belmont with a distinct "psychological advantage...
Last week the still-unheralded Jones, with a percentage that hovered around the .345 mark, was bunched with three other players in a race for the batting leadership of the National League. In recognition of Jones' fearsome reputation at the plate, opposing pitchers recently walked him three times (twice intentionally) in one game, an honor rarely afforded anemic Met batters...
...other staff members to each of its schools this year in a ratio of at least one black to every five whites. In so ruling, the court supported a quota system for the first time -and may well have opened a Pandora's box of litigation involving race quotas in such areas as industrial promotions, school admissions and housing rentals. The quota, which was originally ordered by District Judge Frank Johnson, had been pronounced too inflexible a standard by a federal appeals court. But Justice Hugo Black, expressing the opinion of the Supreme Court, declared that it was necessary...