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There, the colt-named Battlefield (by War Relic-Dark Display)-pricked his ears and began to run. By last weekend, when 14 of the finest two-year-olds in the U.S. went to the post for the 61st running of Belmont's Futurity, Battlefield had won so many stakes he was the odds-on (19-20) favorite. In twelve starts, he had won nine times, never been out of the money, earned...
...Frost is a poet with few disciples. Today's bright young men look to the intricate, mannered, literary methods of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden for their models. They grudgingly admire Frost as a kind of 19th Century relic, resent his commanding popularity, and smart under the reproach: "If Frost can make himself intelligible...
...show alarm. They were further stirred up when Mayor Gregori enlarged upon the dangers of travel, how shaking might crack the reliquary's enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori smoothly...
...hitch occurred when the vehicle that was to bear the reliquary to Rome arrived at Orvieto. It was an ordinary closed moving van. The people gathered in the plaza complained that this was not good enough for their relic. They muttered that the reliquary should be taken to Rome in a truck with a glass top and sides, so that all the countryside could see it and realize what a great sacrifice they, the people of Orvieto, had made...
...country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...