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...show its disapprobation of Viet Nam policy by voting to cancel the August 1964 resolution, passed by Congress after the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, that then-and thereafter-authorized the President to take "all necessary measures" against aggression in Southeast Asia. Georgia's Russell countered with his own rider reaffirming the Tonkin resolution. Both were potentially troublesome...
...Juan Franco track. He finished dead last, and after the race the stewards suspended him for being "inept." Vowing "Some day I win the Kentucky Derby" Braulio took to haunting movie houses that showed newsreels of U.S. races ("Eddie Arcaro always won. He was a beautiful hand rider"), worked hard to earn his spurs in the hell-for-leather scrambles that are typical of racing in Panama. Between 1956 and 1960 he won 912 races-about one-third of all the races in the country. Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke...
Foreign jockeys have trouble adjusting to the carefully policed, mannerly ways of U.S. racing. Baeza had less than most: in six years, he has been "set down" for rough riding fewer times than almost any other top rider. He does have his idiosyncrasies: he wears his stirrups somewhat longer than U.S. jockeys do, sits straighter in the saddle, uses his whip only as a last resort-a fact that does not escape the notice of trainers, who dislike having their horses abused. "Braulio treats 'em kinder," Willie Shoemaker once commented, "and they run kinder...
...Rider (the 1958 rock-and-roll version...
...damned maidens ablaze, sundry vile bodies and Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film's conceits are breathtaking to behold, from the gauzy blue-grey magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from bed to swimming pool or repair to a tree house devised for impromptu seductions...