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...Slowed down this season by a leg injury and a virus infection, Kelso-Mrs. Richard C. du Font's five-year-old gelding-won only five races in eleven starts, but still swept the voting for Horse of the Year for an unprecedented third straight year. A great-grandson of Man o' War, Kelso needs only $30,000 more to become the fifth millionaire (others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation, Carry Back) in U.S. racing history...
...economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels from the Atlantic to the Adriatic, yielding to the mystic lure of the sun that impelled the Goths across the Alps for centuries, and that inspired Goethe to ask yearningly Kennst du das Land wo die Żitronen blühn? (Do you know the land where the lemons bloom...
...snapped, "but I'm not one of those boys." Instead, Gilbert went to the movies, hoping to see himself in the newsreels (he didn't), cultivated a voodoo priest ordained in spirit vibrations, and passed one weekend with Novelist John Dos Passes discussing the works of Daphne du Maurier because Gilbert had recently read her but never Dos Passes. Each day Gilbert studied the Wall Street Journal, which a thoughtful pal in New York sent down...
Dead Chicks. To protest such inequities, demonstrators from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...
...horsemen to be the best thoroughbred since Man o' War: the $108,900 Jockey Club Gold Cup at New York's Belmont Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner's purse ran his lifetime earnings to $938,380-sixth highest total...