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...inclusive. Governor Scranton was just one of a bevy of Republican presidential contenders whom pundits measured like handicappers at a racetrack. Sample form sheet, from Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jack Steele: "Goldwater still the front runner. . . Rocke feller's chances seem to have been helped little, if any, by the sag in Goldwater's fortunes. . . Nixon has gained most on the surface, but has stirred little enthusiasm among party pros." As for Scranton and Ambassador Lodge, Steele saw "no sign that either has stirred masses of voters...
...Illinois, Democratic Governors and Republican legislatures have long been unable to agree on basic tax changes, turned instead to a hodgepodge of sales, racetrack, gas, liquor, cigarette and utility taxes. Welfare costs are soaring, some $200 million more are needed in the coming biennium, but no agreement on enacting an income tax seems possible...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...
...week, leaving a trail of death and disaster in its wake. Raging seas and roaring winds that reached a velocity of 177 m.p.h. blitzed dikes, flooded cities, inundated farm land, and capsized ships from Denmark to the British Isles. So strong were the gales at Britain's Catterick racetrack that gusts blew race horses off their legs and sent their jockeys flying...
...huge collection of the kind of Negroes you don't see any more in the movies. They are ragged, they roll their eyes, they shout "Who dat man?" with religious ecstasy, and they are full of rhythm. At the end of the film they reappear, marching down the racetrack behind the Marx boys, shouting, "All God's chillun got money...