Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck ran out on the Dancer turning into the stretch when Sir Beau, a 28-to-1 shot, cut in front of him and forced him to bump Martin's Jig and Nodouble before finishing third. Sir Beau was equally at fault in the accident but was out of the money in any case; Dancer was placed eighth, behind Martin...
...state and local governments, equally in need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying plans for permitting developers to build over the freeways that stretch through the city's downtown area. In Washington, the Department of Labor plans...
Even people who confused the Kentucky Derby with the roller derby know by this time the sad story of Dancer's Image: how he roared through the stretch to beat the favored Forward Pass by a length and a half only to be disqualified three days later because his post-race urinalysis had shown a trace of the illegal painkilling drug phenylbutazone...
Preakness positions are not assigned yet, but luck figures in other ways. Dancer's Image was extremely lucky when the tiring Captain's Gig bore out in the stretch and let him get through on the rail. Generally, a horse out in front is a horse out of trouble. That is where Forward Pass will be. The Dancer's revenge would be sweet indeed. But if he has to wait for the longer and more prestigious Belmont to squelch Forward Pass' Triple Crown hopes, it will be sweeter still. The Belmont may be another story...
...Penney Co., the nation's second-largest general merchandiser (after Sears, Roebuck & Co.), rang up $208 million sales in March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...