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...worst, according to Quirin, was 1974, when Cannonade won the Kentucky Derby and Little Current captured the Preakness and Belmont Stakes...
Diana Firestone and her husband Bert, owner of 1975 Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, bought Genuine Risk at auction for $32,000. Her bloodlines were impressive: her sire, Exclusive Native, was also the sire of Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, and her grandsire, Gallant Man, won the Belmont Stakes in 1957. The Firestones, who breed and occasionally break their own horses at the family's Virginia farm, register the colts under Mr. Firestone's name and the fillies under Mrs. Firestone...
Backers of the plan say it could create thousands of jobs in the industrial area near the Arlington and Belmont line, and add millions of dollars to the city's tax base...
...coach William Cleary kept things in perspective. "He was the only coach who never said I'd definitely play." And Burke chose Harvard because of the students he stayed with when he visited the campus. "I found out they all weren't a bunch of preppies," Burke, who attended Belmont Hill, says...
...possibles" to 69. Included were a number of politicians, as well as several scientists and academics. Two weeks later, the Corporation had trimmed its list to 23. Finally, on the night of December 13, 1970, senior fellow Francis "Hooks" Burr '35 hailed a cab and headed off to Belmont to call on Derek Bok. Ten days later, Bok responded to the Corporation and--save the formalities of January--Harvard had itself a new president...