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Also-rans would divide a pot of $360,000, depending on how many horses actually ran in the race, which were a lot fewer than the 332 nominated, owing largely to the $1,500 entrance fee for each competing horse. Last week only eleven horses ran. Those with tickets on the eight also-rans won $7,500 each. Those with tickets on one of the 321 nonrunners won $202.49 apiece. And there were altogether six drawings, making six prizes in every category...
...synthesis of economics, geography, social anthropology and politics, third-graders study Cleveland as a shipping and commercial center, a melting pot of immigrants and native pioneers, and a city plagued by the problem of slum neighborhoods and urban renewal. Throughout, the aim is to encourage valid judgments and discourage rote recitations. "The youngster should be aware that he's in a society that has values, and that a careful choice of values is what determines a rational man," says English...
With the economy in high gear, a sweeping civil rights bill in the bag, and an incumbent in the White House, Democrats should have been able to assemble their 1964 platform for this week's convention with a paste pot. As it emerged, the platform was a bit sticky, glued together with boasts about Democratic accomplishments and pleasing promises of more pleasantries to come. But before the promises were put to paper, the Johnson Administration, with sledgehammer subtlety, pounded away at platform hearings with predictably partisan testimony from all the big tools in the Government...
...product of South Boston's melting pot ghetto, Cushing feels a Bostonian kinship to the Kennedys. The cardinal's father, after emigrating from County Cork in 1880, became a blacksmith for the old Boston Elevated. "We were ordinary people, but comfortable," Cushing recalls...
...humorist-some of the bedroom bits are shy but sly, and the house comes down when Kate, playing the woman of the world with a cigarette she can't quite get the hang of, drops it down her cleavage and has to be royally sloshed with the nearest pot of milk...