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...Landau, he had one of the worst relapses of his career. He made a fine, fast start and led the field for a mile; then, in the backstretch, he simply quit. Said a busted bettor: "That horse is so bad off, not even a head shrinker could fix him. His trouble is he knows he's inferior...
...procession. On the steps of St. Peter's, the canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals, more than 200 bishops, Pope Pius XII would fix jewel-studded crowns to the painting, first above the Infant's head, then above the Virgin's, to symbolize the fact that the Roman Catholic Church regards the Virgin as the reigning "Queen of Heaven [and] of all creation...
...Gavilan had indeed suspected a fix, he had delayed the inevitable by some strange stratagems: first by breaking his hand, next by coming down with the mumps. In the ring, however, there was no doubt that he was reluctant to fight. "There were long, painful intervals," wrote Parker, "in which the two warriors stood and regarded each other like querulous old hens. Then, without a 'shall we dawnce?' cue, they would embrace and waltz a measure...
...peaceful Swiss were up in arms against the U.S. last week. The battle was touched off by the U.S. Justice Department, which filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan accusing Switzerland's watch cartel and U.S. watch importers of conspiring to control production and fix prices in the U.S. Reaching out across 3,850 miles to name Switzerland's proudest and most respected watchmakers* as coconspirators, the Justice Department charged...
...letter created the stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...