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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, none of these reasons explain a day in the red for July 18. They lone winners were SUN TICCO ($8.60) and WOLF WILLOW ($5.20). The night before the Scientist had enlisted the handicapping aid of a high rolling horseplay from New York, the Wellesley Kid. It was a very hot and humid night. In a fifth floor apartment two blopcks over some well-shaped young ladies fought the heat by not wearing andy clothes. The Wellesley Kid enjoyed the Cambridge view as he never had. He spent the night focusing his binoculars, occasionally puncturing the evening with such remarks...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Ah Woe! Picking Horses Is Not An Easy Task | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

...local job programs, and the State Employment Service plans to find jobs for all graduating high school seniors before they have a chance to waste the summer. A Model Cities program has been launched in Watts, and Lockheed Aircraft has dedicated a site for a new plant in the Willow Brook area. Four new swimming pools are scheduled to open in Miami's ghetto this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: HOPE FOR THE SUMMER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...drama, can hardly be blamed for that, but he does not even seem to know who the real James Goldman is. Sometimes he seems to be a swaggering Elizabethan playwright whose rhetorical sword never gets out of its scabbard. "The sky is pocked with stars," sighs Henry. "Has my willow turned to poison oak?" he inquires of his mistress. At other times, Goldman is an anachronistic historian. "It's 1183, and we're all barbarians," announces the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Often Goldman is simply a pig-bladder comedian. After Eleanor announces to Henry that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Sovereigns Next Door | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...across and weighs 101 lbs.-assuming they can afford the cost (up to $800 for the biggest Fin-Nor model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin on 12-lb. line off Piñas Bay, Panama-thereby breaking a year-old record held by none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Light Fantastic | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...putting things together," says Kenneth T. Jones, a former farm boy from Willow Springs, N.C., who has been putting things together ever since he hit the beaches of Japanese-held Guam as a Seabee in 1944. Now 50 and a solid 240-pounder, he is the millionaire owner of a diversified commercial kingdom ranging from supermarkets to construction and cattle ranching and, most recently, the first luxury hotel in the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "Next to the Government, Ken Jones is the biggest thing on Guam," says a local dignitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Micronesia: Island Millionaire | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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