61.   She said the decision not to contest most statewide races this year was a strategic one.

62.   That moment encapsulated something you can see in race after race this year.

63.   The California horses are taking their time going to the races this year, possibly because a winter of flooding has made their tracks precarious.

64.   The champion fund-raiser in Senate races this year is former Marine officer Oliver North, who is running against Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia.

65.   The CD is about her good fortune in winning a gold medal in the world championship giant-slalom race that year.

66.   The clashing education ideologies will be on display in a number of races this year.

67.   The fifth choice among bettors, Real Quiet had not won a race this year.

68.   The mastermind behind those sound-alike advertisements and similar ones against Democratic candidates in dozens of other races this year is Arthur J. Finkelstein, a pollster and political consultant.

69.   The Michigan race this year was superheated even before the Democratic Party had selected its three candidates to oppose three sitting Republican justices.

70.   The only other driver to win a Southwest Series race this year has been NASCAR Winston Cup star Ken Schrader, who took the season opener in Phoenix.