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...Derby and Preakness with ease. The only thing against him was history. At H mi., the Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races, and in the 15 years since Citation, odds-on favorites have lost seven times. Two, like the Dancer, were trying for a triple: Tim Tarn in 1958 (a broken-legged second), and Carry Back in 1961 (a dismal seventh...
...Catholics, which has been fanned anew by Buddhist demands that a former Catholic army officer who had served under the late President Diem be executed for ordering troops to fire on Buddhists demonstrating in Hue last May.* Last week the progovernment head of the Buddhists' political bureau, Thich Tarn Chau, resigned, charging other monks with trying to stir up trouble. The resignation meant increasing influence for another leading monk, Thich Tri Quang, who enjoyed refuge last year in the U.S. embassy, but who is considered antigovernment and potentially neutralist...
...complex. I needed something to show my prowess. Golf was it." Mickey stopped feeling inferior at 15, when she shot a 70 in a San Diego tournament. In 1954 her father staked her to a summer on the pro tour-as an amateur. Mickey was low amateur at the Tarn O'Shanter, the St. Petersburg Open and the U.S. Open and was runner-up in the U.S. Amateur. She changed her amateur standing on the spot...
...unheated northern European universities, needs restyling each 50 years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy. Last week, at graduation, Columbia showed its new doctoral dress. Slate grey with a facing of black velvet replaces the black that is customary in the U.S. A four-cornered soft tarn with a gold tassel replaces the stiff mortarboard. The university thoughtfully advised academic plumage-watchers to note the border of the hood for "the color indicating the discipline to which the degree pertains: arts and letters, including journalism, white; theology, scarlet; law, purple; medicine, green; philosophy, dark blue; science, yellow...
...fairness, the acting was quite good: Anne Hescock turned in a very fine performance as the helpless mother; and the whole production was very smoothly run. Malcolm Tarn's serts and special effects fulfilled Andrews' unusual specifications more than adequately; indeed, the two-headed baby, itself, was done with such grisly realism that one almost suspected it was an actual specimen taken from the Cohasset Home for Incapacitated Infants, which one must pass in order to get to the Music Circus from Route...