Word: races
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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While still a student, Connally caught the eye of a young Democrat making his first race for Congress. When Representative Lyndon Baines Johnson went to Washington in 1937, he took Connally with him as an administrative aide. Connally stayed in Washington until 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy as an ensign. At the end of the war, he was a lieutenant commander decorated three times as a flight officer on the carrier Essex. Connally used his mustering-out pay to open a radio station in Austin with ten other veterans-among them Congressman Jake Pickle and Judge Homer Thornberry...
...given the present mood of malaise−and the President's own stated priorities−it seemed more urgent for the nation to worry about being first in the vitality of the cities, in standards of education, in fighting pollution, in aiding the poor, in race relations−first in all the qualities of national life...
...will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will make Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, in 18 days, then cover the 4,000 miles of Atlantic to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, in 20 days−an astonishing average of 200 singlehanded miles sailed every day. The 1968 transatlantic race was won at a daily average 109.8 miles. "To increase the speed to 200 miles a day for 20 days is a very big jump indeed, for which one would need every possible advantage," says Chichester. Among other advantages, Gypsy Moth is carrying six bottles of brandy and two of champagne...
...unprecedented decision that has the French racing industry in an angry uproar, Paris' Seventh Chamber of the Court of Appeals awarded $3,000 damages to Luca. Said the court: "The jockey must not, before arriving at the finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for first, second or third place." Jockeys now fear that they may have to spend as much time in court as on the race track, fending off the suits of disgruntled bettors. Even race-track stodpers, who look for discarded ticket stubs, were heard to complain about the decision. If it holds...
...forecast bet in which the bettor must pick the first three horses in a race...