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On the track Verry Elleegant stormed to victory in the Melbourne Cup but in the stands it was slightly less elegant with trackside revellers chugging champagne straight out of the bottle. ....
The so-called race that stops a nation has been held in Melbourne since 1861 and regularly attracts crowds of more than 100,000, but was this year restricted 10,000 fully-vaccinated people. ....
Cooped-up Australians threw off the shackles of gruelling lockdowns for the Melbourne Cup, but some party animals may have overdone the celebrating just a touch. ....
SARAH HONOSKY The (Lynchburg) News & Advance HUDDLESTON â It was 71 years to the day her father died in a plane crash on a farm in Bedford County, and, on Tuesday, Kathleen Iacopetti stood by his memorial, wreath in hand, at the end of a cross-country journey that brought her to the site of her fatherâs death for the first time. On June 22, 1950, a production model AJ-1 bomber, the Navyâs first strike plane designed to carry the nuclear bomb, crashed en route to a naval air station along the Patuxent River in Maryland. The plane exploded in the air and fell in flames, killing its three crew members. Among them was 26-year-old James A. Moore Jr., a flight test engineer from California and a last-minute replacement on the final flight. ....