Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graveyard. Only at the race track do the old traditions survive. Gentlemen must still wear coats in the clubhouse; horses are still saddled and mounted graciously on the cool grass under the elms behind the peak-roofed grandstand. The annual August yearling auction is still the No. 1 event on a true horseman's social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone...
...Millionairess, Shaw's ode to free enterprise, stars Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing as the robber baroness. Westport, Conn.; Mineola, N.Y. (two weeks); Millburn, N.J. (two weeks...
...President and the Attorney General," rumbled Mississippi's Segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, "have encouraged demonstrations, freedom rides, sit-ins, picketing and actual violation of local laws. Gentlemen, if you pass this civil rights legislation, you are passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on the part of Negro groups and under various types of intimidation from the executive branch of this government...
...show on planes to Europe. For, unfortunately, the Town Meeting had been seen only in America, and although Ike could see his three fellow conversationalists, none of them could see him, or one another. As air time neared, the French government had decided that the remarks of the old gentlemen, particularly Monnet, might be inimical to the views of their own Old Gentleman, so they refused the use of the receiving station at Pleumeur-Bodou, which alone serves all of Europe in Telstar communications. Britain's Goonhilly Down sending station kept the show alive for the U.S. and Canada...
Contrasting nicely to these gentlemen was Paul Del Rossi, who gained his eighth win of the year against a single defeat. Del Rossi permitted but six hits and struck out 13 Blue-capped foes with a tantalizing smorgasbord of curves, change-ups and good old fast balls...