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...seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger go on ice, stables are swept out, hotel prices skyrocket, and bunting drips like Spanish moss from Broadway's stately elms...
...elevators in operation around the world, Otis does double the business of its only real competitor, Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). An educational smorgasbord for children, including puppets explaining math and astronomy, a re-creation of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a small segment of the life and times of the average porpoise, and Actor Eli Wallach reading The Pied Piper of Hamlin...
...around for Guggenheim. Candy Spots won by a half-length, and Never Bend's Jockey Ycaza was grounded for 60 days for a "completely unwarranted" claim of foul. Yet both horses were operating under handicaps. Never Bend had sprained a back muscle at Saratoga, and Candy Spots, still green, was running in only his third race. "Candy Spots won magnificently," Guggenheim says graciously-but he does not consider the race a true test of the better horse. That comes on Derby...
...foundation at Saratoga Springs, endowed by George Foster Peabody and his wife Katrina. Selected writers, artists and composers are given room and board in a stately 50-room mansion surrounded by 500 peaceful acres, where they may stay for as long as two months at a time for undisturbed, isolated creative activity...