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...city's curve of smog concentrations matched the curve of deaths from heart and respiratory disease. Each day the center receives filters, coated with air pollutants collected by the same process in 23 other U.S. cities, for analysis and comparison. Right now, the Fort Worth filters are tan from wind-borne topsoil. Those from Detroit and Los Angeles show that, at rush hours, the lead content from automobile exhausts is near the limit of human tolerance...
When Adlai Stevenson showed up last week in Charlotte. N.C., newsmen noted his heavier tan and lighter humor (compared to his showing in Miami last month), but few other apparent changes. If not running for office, he was at least a man in motion. He was still glad-handing party pols and casting pearly wit before crowds (on his bothersome kidney stone: "A subversive element"). It was only in his major speech, wildly cheered by some 3,500 Carolina Democrats, that a bigger change showed...
...horses dropped out; one by one, Royal Tan passed those that remained. As Royal Tan approached the 30th and last jump, almost bridle to bridle with the last remaining challenge, Tudor Line, the knowing crowd let out a roar. For in 1951 Royal Tan misjudged the last jump and lost precious time; in 1952 he fell at the last jump...
Last away from the post and well clear of the confusion in the early going was top-weighted (161 Ibs.) Royal Tan, a ten-year-old gelding. Royal Tan is Irish-bred, owned, trained and ridden. His owner is J. H. Griffin, a 36-year-old candymaker from Templeogue, near Dublin. His jockey was a redhead named Bryan Marshall, who was born in Tipperary and raised in Limerick. His trainer was Vincent O'Brien from Tipperary...
Last week Royal Tan went up and over the final jump like a leprechaun, shook off Tudor Line's challenge in the straightaway, and won by a neck. Just a year ago, with another Irish steeplechaser named Early Mist, the Irish owner-trainer-jockey combination won England's 1O7th Grand National. Exulted Owner Griffin last week: "No other owner has ever won two consecutive Grand Nationals with different horses. Next year we'll try to make it three...