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...used to be the rubes' sport, shunned by city sophisticates but drawing as many as 2,500,000 fans a year at hundreds of fairgrounds across the U.S. Today, thanks to such swank night tracks as Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, harness racing is thriving on cosmopolitan crowds and city slickers anxious to make a $2 wager. Last year it was an $819 million business, drawing 15 million spectators and dishing out $32 million in purses to the cream of 17,702 trotters and pacers...
...scandal that surrounded him, there was reason to wonder whether Dilworth could survive politically. As a reformer at the head of a sullied reform administration, he may have to stifle his ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania next year and settle for private life in Philadelphia's swank Society Hill...
...girl along with them to invade the posh Dolphin Bar, retreated in confusion when the bartender gently explained that she was underage. One African girl, sent to test segregation in the public toilet facilities, forgot to take the necessary penny for the slot. Another girl walked into the swank Ann Douglas beauty parlor and demanded "the works." She was dumfounded when they offered to serve her; expecting a refusal, she had brought no money...
...ambush was as sudden as it was effective. Driver Jim Buntin had just dropped his third fare of the morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate...
...half-dozen of these adventurers might have come out of Steve Canyon. They keep their rendezvous over martinis in the swank Clipper Club at Miami Airport or at Murray's Mau Mau Lounge in the Green Mansions Hotel, make as much as $5,000 for a Cuba flight. Typical is Arkansas-born Jack Youngblood, 29. He once flew for Castro, now claims that an anti-Castro group owes him $16,000. Romantically fond of danger, girls and uncomplicated poetry, Youngblood says: "I have no loyalties. I just work for money." Can the U.S. stop these mercenaries? The border patrol...