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...Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push him off the roof of the grandstand first...

Author: By James Morgan, | Title: Hoist the Flag Set to Fly Over Derby Field | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

...three-day meet is being taped for viewing on educational television, and Koocher an official timer in lane six, told excitedly about walking in front of the camera several times...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Cahalan Breaks Harvard Record | 3/12/1971 | See Source »

...these remarks are limited to white rock and roll. Black music cannot be said to have declined at all when an old-timer like James Brown can continue to issue amazing and totally unpredictable singles such as "Superbad" and "Get on Up, Get into It, Get Involved," and a relative newcomer like King Floyd can put out "Groove Me," which was certainly the best 45 in the past six months...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Obscure Vinyl Some Nice Records | 3/9/1971 | See Source »

...official results have not yet been released, pending comparison between stopwatch times and the photo-timer results. Also, the sweepstakes point championship, which Harvard won last year with three firsts, has not yet been awarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweights Grab Wins In 'Head of the Charles' | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

RADICAL bombers have become rather sophisticated with explosives in the past few months, but on this occasion their timer was off. At 3:42 a.m., less than two minutes after police in Madison, Wis., received the telephone warning, a blast tore through the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall, destroying the math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rise of the Dynamite Radicals | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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