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...Swaps wasted no time. Jockey Willie Shoemaker booted him clear, and he took the lead. Nashua eased wide, as Jockey Eddie Arcaro held him off the pace. Summer Tan, too, ran with the pack. Coming around the stretch turn again, Nashua made his move. He pulled up for a split-second look at Swaps, and then Shoemaker took his mount away. Said Arcaro later: "Swoosh went Swaps." Nashua just did not have it. Swaps drove past the wire, winner by a length and a half and richer by $108,400. In show position, 6½ lengths back, came fading Summer...
...since the development of radar," said Gardner. "Virtually every hit is a sure kill. The missile receives target information with the speed of light. It decides what to do without ever making any of the mistakes humans might make. It ... can destroy any enemy bomber in the world . . . with split-second accuracy. Falcon represents an achievement in scientific research, invention and production almost without parallel...
...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...
...Mahalia works until she feels both the words and the music. She never sings the same song twice in the same way. Even when using an identical arrangement for I Believe, Mahalia sang one version in two minutes, 40 seconds and another in three minutes, 20 seconds - a 40-second difference that could play hob with radio's split-second timing...
...televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...