Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EIGHTH--M. H.'s GALAXY will be a tough horse to beat...
Another problem is that if and when oil is found, the landowners who lease acreage to the wildcatters make heavy demands. Once they were satisfied with a one-eighth share of profits; now they insist on bonuses or a larger slice of the earnings. The oil companies, which once farmed out much land to independents, now have much less to distribute because their attention has turned increasingly to offshore properties, Alaska and foreign lands...
Long shots: CORREL FIRE in third, LEVEL JAY in tenth; Best Bet: QUEEN VIKING in eighth...
...however, personifies the Chicanos' bleak past, restless present and possible future in quite the manner of Cesar Chavez. He was the unshod, unlettered child of migrant workers. He attended dozens of schools but never got to the eighth grade. He was a street-corner tough who now claims as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru and Martin Luther King. He tells his people: "We make a solemn promise: to enjoy our rightful part of the riches of this land, to throw off the yoke of being considered as agricultural implements or slaves. We are free men and we demand justice...
Best Bet: "VIKING" entry in Seventh. Longshots: GALAX RULER in second and JOE DI ROSA in eighth...