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...that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors in Shell Heap, with an angler bending to his catch while the breezy skies of Florida seem to whip palm fronds into an ominous rattle...
This collaborative childhood autobiography evokes dreamy days in a sprawling house in East Bengal, where the Goddens' father was a steamship agent, and where, as petted and pampered little memsahibs, they had syces to care for their pony, dirzees to whip them up frilly frocks, ayahs and bearers to care for them. But the sisters were perceptive little girls, and if life was mostly a carefree and sheltered idyll, there was also an awareness of spuming life outside their garden wall. They recall with remarkable clarity the sights and sounds of the bazaars, of steamer trips through the river...
...stars might be fighting for second money as a 44-1 shot named Sweet Luck leaped into the lead. Going into the last turn, Trainer-Driver Stanley Dancer abruptly swung Cardigan Bay wide to make his move; at almost the same instant, Driver Frank Ervin cracked his whip, and Bret Hanover rushed forward to challenge for the lead. He never quite got there. At the wire, old Cardigan Bay was a length ahead. Loser Ervin offered no alibis. "I had a good journey," he said. "But Cardigan Bay is a great horse...
Fowler, who only three months ago was insisting that the U.S. would whip the eight-year-old problem in 1966, appeared last week at a Washington news conference with Commerce Secretary John Connor, and reported morosely that the deficit in the nation's balance of payments jumped to an annual rate of $2.3 billion in the first quarter, up from last year's $1.3 billion. Fowler also conceded that the U.S. has surrendered just about all hopes of achieving a balance as long as the war in Viet Nam continues. The direct and indirect costs of Viet...
...Jockey Braulio Baeza eased up, and suddenly from dead last, there came Willie Shoemaker on Abe's Hope. The horses were neck and neck at the top of the stretch-then Abe's Hope drew out to a half-length lead. Baeza went to the whip, and Graustark came on hard. But not hard enough. Abe's Hope won by a nose...