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...pert strawberry blonde who made the first breakthrough on Feb. 7 at Hialeah, whipped home a winner her sixth time out of the gate. "A horse," she explains, "doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track." Tuesdee Testa, 27, the wife of a stable foreman and the mother of a two-year-old daughter, won at Santa Anita in her second race. She has also been initiated into the perils of her new trade: at Aqueduct two weeks ago, Jockey Willie Lester cut her off out of the gate...
...ruled the country well. At 80, feeble but still formidable, she was persuaded to relinquish her male harem and was maneuvered into luxurious retirement. Less than a year later she died-without a care in the world, without a spot on her conscience. In her last will and testa ment, she declared that she "pardoned" all the people who had forced her to kill them...
Meeting with Two Russians. Slipyi's release is the diplomatic handiwork of two close Curia friends of Pope John-Augustin Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which supervises Byzantine-rite Catholics. Late last November, Bea arranged a quiet meeting between Testa and the two Russian observers at the Vatican Council. Testa smoothly pointed out that the Pope had officially disavowed a protest prepared by a group of Ukrainian bishops at the council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought...
...best sets is the British-made Scalextric, which costs $49.95 for more than nine feet of track, two variable-speed controllers and two sturdy cars (Grand Prix racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand...
...addition to the versatile Testa, the death list included some burglars, a thief, and a suspected juice dealer. Since the killings began, the possibility that they may fit into a master plan of thugicide has fascinated Chicago, a town that has never lost its interest in organized murder. But the most popular theory is that the hoods are being killed in unrelated fights over the crumbs left by the syndicate bosses, who, under police pressure, have been cutting down operations. Says Deputy Police Superintendent Joseph Morris: "These fellows were all messenger boys. If they were controlled by the syndicate...