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...bugle. A crowd of 39.000 jamming the Belmont grounds waits expectantly as the nine horses stream around the track to the starting gate. The tote board shows that $376,243 had been wagered on the race, 65% of it on the Dancer to win, place or show...
...willing to invest in the breeding, training and racing of thoroughbreds). Its adherents are a mixed bag of rich and poor, high, middle-and lowbrow: those who get their kicks from the beauty of the horse and the excitement of the race, those who look only at the tote board, those who find in the combination of these attractions all the attributes of a poker game, circus, picnic, athletic contest, suspense movie, as well as an escape from the lesser, daily race in office or factory. For those who do not see it at all, they have no argument, merely...
...1/12 p.m. The cameras click, the tote board flashes the red warning "Photo," but the roaring crowd knows the result: another typical Dancer performance of heartbreak first, and then glory...
...days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man's burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an old India hand has little to tote but a stiff upper lip. Not so John Masters, exbrigadier of the Indian army. Bounced out of India by Indian independence, he has bounced right back again, figuratively, at least, with a self-imposed burden of Kiplingesque dimensions. The burden: to write 35 novels about the land...
...frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian airplane. When he has nothing else to do (such as dropping in at Monte Carlo's famed Casino, which he owns, crap tables and all), Onassis will rough it on the Christina and use her for an office...