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...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
Stymie was three lengths in front of the Argentine-bred Rico Monte, five lengths ahead of the Kentucky Derby winner, Assault. His time-2:42 2 4/5-clipped a fifth of a second off Jamaica's 1⅝-mile track record. Stymie paid off at a handsome 5-to-1. Reason: practically everybody bet on a record-wrecker named Lucky Draw (TIME, Sept. 23), who seemed a cinch to become the "Horse of the Year" after smashing six track records in his last eight races. Lucky Draw finished eighth; the top weight and the distance were too much...
...delve in liquid imports from P. R. (That's Puerto Rico...
...fraudulent Stavisky bonds. But the fortune in jewels, which Stavisky gave to his wife, Arlette, an ex-mannequin and dancer, was still untraced. The former Arlette Stavisky, her terpsichorean tittups long forgotten, recently settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army captain, to a tranquil life in Puerto Rico...
...deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...