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...Margaret's pregnancy, most Britons expected Queen Elizabeth II to award a title to the baby's commoner father, Antony Armstrong-Jones. But although she honored 2,300 of her subjects on last week's annual list-including a dance-band leader, a mailman, a motorcycle racer and a lighthouse keeper-there was nary a mention of the Queen's brother...
Died. Tony Bettenhausen, 44, stocky, crew-cut auto racer, two-time U.S. big-car champion (1951 and 1958), a scarred survivor of 28 crackups; in a flaming crash on the Indianapolis Speedway when the Steady Special he was testing for a friend on the eve of time trials for the Memorial Day race lost a 1? cotter pin, careened into a wall at nearly 145 m.p.h...
...rules of thoroughbred racing, the tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board...
...speaking over France's state-owned radio, declared that Gagarin was the second. The first spaceman, said Bobrowski, was Sergei Ilyushin, son of Russia's famed aircraft designer. Said Bobrowski: "Sergei Ilyushin is a tough boy, a kind of Soviet Gil Delamare [French parachute jumper, stock-car racer and stuntman], and his father's position permitted him to do anything he wished. He absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through I don't know whose influence in the Soviet government, and he followed training courses...
...phone over an anonymous third party ("Should I hang up/ Or will you tell him/ He'll have to go?"). Before he had even gone, RCA Victor was out with Tell Laura I Love Her, a ballad gurgled out to his beloved by a dying stock-car racer. Laura herself (Songstress Marilyn Michaels) provided the inevitable followup: Tell Tommy I Miss Him. Dazzled at the prospects, the record companies have issued Save the Last Dance for Me and I'll Save the Last Dance for You; Please Help Me, I'm Falling...