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Cowboy v. Millionaire. For horsemen the 1963 Kentucky Derby also shapes up as a contest of purpose and theory. Rex Ellsworth has come a far piece since he showed up in Kentucky in 1933 with $600 in his poke and a yen to buy some brood mares. His mercurial colt Swaps outran Nashua in the 1955 Derby, and his horses won $1,154,454 last year. Now Ellsworth owns a 440-acre ranch in Chino, Calif., 1,000 sq. mi. of range land in Arizona and New Mexico, and about 500 head of high-priced thoroughbred horseflesh...
...expected the campaign to do much good. While forgetfulness is much to blame, so is overcrowding. Every day, 36 million Japanese ride the trains, 4,200,000 in Tokyo alone. At rush hours, 350 commuters jam into cars designed for 100, helped by brawny students who are paid 150 yen (42?) an hour to stand on the platform and shoehorn people inside. When the doors open, the scrimmage begins; cracked ribs are not uncommon. In such circumstances, the passenger's first concern is for his safety, not for his packages-or even his clothes. In fact, so many commuters...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes college humor and surrealistic props to launch a bizarre offensive against poor Mom. As a girl with a yen for Mama's boy, Barbara Harris ranges from clowning grotesquerie to candied simpering to erotic voracity, with unflawed skill...
...goes to an American, since the U.S. holds 30% of the bank's stock. Woods is eager to take it on. Says his longtime friend, U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Arthur Dean: "Woodsie has climbed all the Mt. Everests there are to climb on Wall Street, and he has a yen for public service. He feels that we have tremendous problems with underdeveloped countries, and people with ability cannot remain comfortably on the outside if we are going to solve them...
...Chinese best-seller this summer, with more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...