Word: winners
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High Asparagus. This year, by contrast with the 1964 campaign, there is no bitter ideological division between the Republican rivals. Both know that to offset the Democrats' 3-to-2 edge over registered Republicans, the winner must have at least 90% of the G.O.P. vote and not less than 20% of the Demo cratic ballot to beat Brown...
...such speed, even a gust of wind can spell disaster-as two-time 500 Winner A. J. Foyt discovered last week when his Ford-powered Sheraton-Thompson Coyote was blown into the outer retaining wall at 162 m.p.h. The car was totally demolished, but Foyt was unhurt. Chuck Rodee was not so lucky. Rodee already had gunned his 500-h.p. rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into...
...winner!" shouted Industrialist Howard Samuels, who calls himself "the poor man's millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy...
...Last week, for example, Bazelon went to the bluegrass country to oversee the recording of his Short Symphony by the Louisville Orchestra. He took advantage of the happy coincidence by flying in a few days early to take in the Kentucky Derby, bet $200 on Kauai King, the eventual winner, and walked off with combined winnings for the day of a stimulating...
Minor, a political writer from Jackson, Miss., is the winner of the third annual Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. The Nieman Fellows selected him for his "sharply perceptive investigative reporting of political and racial affairs...