Word: three-year-old
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PARIS, Nov. 29--The government of premier Felix Gaillard tonight won two votes of confidence from the French National Assembly on plans for the future of rebellious Algeria. These plans to retain French rule--with relaxations--already have been rejected by rebel leaders in the three-year-old North African...
This vignette epitomizes Lieutenant in Algeria, a violently angry book about the stain of "lies and bluff" spreading across France and the French army as its three-year-old war of "pacification" in Algeria gradually becomes a degrading massacre of the innocents on both sides. The man who hurls this "J'accuse," Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 33, is the brilliant editor of the liberal weekly L'Express and an ex-braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young...
...When fire broke out in the King Ranch stable at Saratoga race track, 14 thoroughbreds were turned loose. But Here and There, a three-year-old filly that had come up from dead last to win the Alabama Stakes that same afternoon, bolted, crashed back into the barn, was burned to death...
...Thundering into the homestretch, Jockey Conn McCreary last week urged three-year-old Clem to the head of the seven-horse pack, galloped across the line if lengths ahead of Kentucky Derby Champ Iron Liege to win the $151,500 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park outside Chicago...
...other stable, Iron Liege would have been top banana. But at Mrs. Gene Markey's fabulously successful Calumet Farm he was only a talented understudy,* the pacesetter for the compact Gen. Duke, ranked by the experts as the finest three-year-old in the land. At post time Iron Liege was held at better than 8 to 1 in the finest field to run in years. Even his jockey, brash Willie Hartack, doubted his chances. Bold Ruler, ridden by canny Eddie Arcaro, was a solid 6-to-5 favorite...