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Late last September, a two-year-old colt named Damascus stepped onto the track at Aqueduct for his first race. He lost...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Damascus Proves Experts Right; Belmont Will Make It 2 for 3 | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...mysticism, but early last winter their faith in Damascus looked like just that, and Successor was installed as the winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. He finished four lengths behind Damascus, who was third. And two weeks later, while Damascus was making the mystics look like geniuses by winning one of the greatest Preaknesses in history, where was the two-year-old champion? Sixth in a second-class field of eight in a mediocre allowance race at Aqueduct...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Damascus Proves Experts Right; Belmont Will Make It 2 for 3 | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...remainder of the field will not be definite until today, but they will end up strung out behind Damascus. Cool Reception, last year's champion two-year-old in Canada, has the best record of these others, looks like he can go a distance, and may be closest to the Preakness winner at the Wire...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Damascus Proves Experts Right; Belmont Will Make It 2 for 3 | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...Modern Man. The most common classroom use of the computer is to take over time-consuming drill in the basic definitions and concepts of a discipline. At the two-year-old Irvine campus of the University of California, which bills itself as "designed for the modern man," 17 courses are partly taught by computer. In Geography I, for example, the machine leads students through such questions as: "How does geography's focus differ from that of the other social sciences?" (Correct answer: "Geography is interested in the spatial impact of all categories of human behavior, whereas other disciplines tend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The New B.M.O.C.s: Big Machines on Campus | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

From his record, Proud Clarion hardly belonged in the same field with the likes of Damascus, winner of the Wood Memorial and this year's 8-to-5 Derby favorite, or with Ruken (2 to 1), winner of the Santa Anita Derby, or Successor (4 to 1), last year's two-year-old champion and the biggest money winner in the field, with $445,829 in total earnings. Proud Clarion, in fact, had never even won a stakes race. As a twoyear-old, he had earned a paltry $805 finishing third in one out of three starts. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Clarion Call | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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