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...Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands who saw him pass didn't recognize the kid who'd just won the Derby...
...Inside a Blanket. The hospital asked for police help immediately-the baby, a prematurely born girl named Cheneta Holden, weighed only 2 Ibs. n oz., was almost certain to die if deprived of heat and oxygen for more than a few hours. A hundred policemen and detectives fanned out in a blind but desperate search...
...crutch was hesitantly proffered him. The fifth member of the committee, Iowa's Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, next day looked at the FBI summary and said he could not give any blanket absolution without a look at the full files, although he was "not making any final conclusions either...
They haggled for nigh a month as they traveled toward Peking. The Chinese grew testier. So did the British-they disparaged shark's-fin soup, complained of smelly peasants (like "putrefying garlic on a much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves...
This philosophy is best seen in the blanket rule of the Dean's Office which excludes Radcliffe girls from a club by requiring it to have 100 percent Harvard membership. This philosophy fails to consider either the statistical inferiority of Radcliffe, or the obvious success of such virtually spliced groups as the orchestras. It is a backward-looking, over-pessimistic, misogynist, and utterly pernicious doctrine...