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...yellow has paled considerably since the days of "Tarn" and "Bon," and so has the Post's financial picture. This year, for the first time, the Post was overtaken by the News in daily circulation, 271,000 to 260,000. Worse, pretax profits for the first eight months of 1980 plummeted to $78,000, from $3.6 million for the same period in 1979. Finally, because of a tangled financial scheme originally designed by a Bonfils heir to prevent the paper from falling into outsiders' hands, even those slim profits have been drained off to support part of Denver...
...quarter-century between Citation and Secretariat, the vagaries of racing luck saw six horses win the first two races of the Triple Crown, only to falter over the 1 ½-mile course of the Belmont Stakes. In 1958 Tim Tarn was leading the field with one-eighth mile to run when he broke his leg. In the 1953 Kentucky Derby, Native Dancer was bumped and then forced to go so far outside that he could have stopped for a mint julep in the clubhouse. He won the Preakness and the Belmont, but his Triple Crown was lost. Nashua, Needles, Damascus...
...North Creek, the Hudson is totally different from the lordly river that passes New York City, 287 miles downstream. The races are run where the Hudson is still fresh, clear, wild and lovely, befitting a river that rises from a tarn-28 miles to the north-with the haunting name of Lake Tear of the Clouds. Visitors from Manhattan are always startled to see the locals cup their hands and drink right out of the stream...
...twelve years' experience in elective office; old Republican with none. In the race between the Democratic transplanted Easterner and the Japanese-American-immigrant Republican, charges of racism are hurled-at the immigrant. Young Democrat is generally somber-suited, dark-tied, prim and proper. His opponent's jaunty tarn o'shanter has become a symbol for the unconventionality he savors in both dress and speech. It could happen only in California, and whether the voters will opt for slight quirkiness or substantial blandness in the final scene may not be known until late at night...
Both Long Boret and Sirik Matak were on the old Khmer Rouge list of "seven traitors" slated for death. Four others, including President Lon Nol (see story below), escaped before the capital fell. Another, former Premier In Tarn, waited until it was almost too late, and finally fled across the border into Thailand, with Communist troops firing at him. Also in Thailand are approximately 1,000 other Cambodian refugees; most are expected to stay on or to settle permanently in the U.S. and France...