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...sport of kings has been cruel to Jockey Mary Bacon, 25. In the five years that she has worn silks, Mary has broken her back twice, been kidnaped by a race-track "Johnny" and shot at. When Michigan's Hazel Park ruled in 1972 that Mary and her husband, Jockey Johnny, could not both compete, Mary left Johnny and went on riding. One of the few out-of-saddle distractions she has permitted herself was a nude pose for Playboy magazine. But it was all coming together. Two weeks into the spring meeting at New York's Aqueduct...
Richard Nixon came down to breakfast one day and he told his loyal Republican leaders that he did not usually eat such breakfasts. But, "Let's eat," he said. The White House waiters hustled in the scrambled and poached eggs, the rashers of bacon and sausage. Nixon began to talk congressional politics, calling on G.O.P. National Chairman George Bush to run down the coming elections. In the morning light Nixon was a realist. His trouble was the Republican trouble right now. He could understand the candidates staying clear of him. That was O.K. But they had better be careful...
...really got to Fairntosh was along the narrow black road dropping steeply down and then straightening out across a flat stretch of swampy forest where at the end of the day a rich odor of bacon cooking came drifting from some nearby shack or trailer. "They've got it fixed up real pretty," said the man we asked for directions, "with them long white fences goin up the hill and the house is hid in the trees...
...Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work to have his card renewed, Wife Jacqueline ordered up bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches for the couple at the airport coffee shop. An hour later, the Onassises were once again airborne...
...Baker, Bacon, books aplenty...