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Horseplayers who studied their form charts simply had to make him the favorite. Even the homebred hardboots from Jefferson County, Ky., agreed that Florida-bred Needles was the horse to beat in the 82nd running of the Kentucky Derby. But they all had their doubts. The big bay colt had won his big races this spring in his home state, where he got a 5-lb. native-son weight advantage. There was also an old bluegrass-and-julep tradition : "No horse whose name begins with 'N' can win a Derby." None ever had; Native Dancer, the favorite...
...Johore Bahru, Malaya, Major General Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, better known as the Sultan of Johore, began a weeklong, million-dollar party to celebrate his 82nd birthday and 60 years of rule on the throne of the Malay state. During the festivities, his Sultanah, a Rumanian beauty named Marcella Mendl, who is the Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your...
...Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis, Emily Post, an alert 81, received the press for lunch to celebrate the ninth edition and 82nd printing of her long-distance bestseller, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage. As reporters dawdled over cocktails, the arbiter of proper behavior cried: "I'm hungry. Where's the food?" She stoutly maintained, "Good manners have not declined," nonchalantly pontificated, "The essence of good manners consists in putting people at ease." Like its author, Etiquette has mellowed since it first went to press in 1922. A Post host of today, unlike those in earlier...
...staff for plans and research. Brooklyn-born Gavin ran away to join the Army at 17, and soon won a competitive exam for West Point (although he never went to high school). A pioneer paratrooper, he jumped nearly 100 times and fought 422 days in combat with his 82nd Airborne Division, later wrote the Army's standard Airborne Warfare, in which he developed the doctrine of "vertical envelopment...
...domestic legislation had been laid aside when Dr. Win-the-War, as F.D.R. phrased it, replaced Dr. New Deal. After the war. Harry Truman adopted the tactic of asking Congress for what he knew it would refuse. He berated the 80th Congress (Republican) as "do-nothing." The 81st and 82nd Congresses (Democratic) also did little...