Word: bayeux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
...transatlantic trip didn't do them any good. The plane, buffeted by headwinds, had to detour by way of Iceland. Nathoo took the pitching & tossing like a seasoned air traveler (which he isn't) but Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
...Bayeux balked in the post parade, wanted no part of a race that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...
...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
Henry Morgenthau was reported by Berlin radio to have stolen the great Bayeux Tapestry, the 231-foot masterpiece showing the Norman invaders, during the Secretary's recent visit to Normandy-thus adding the charge of libel to those for which Germany's war criminals may be tried...