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...return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five Derby winners, including Sir Barton. But the grandson Preston and his flamboyant wife Anita have been famed solely as champion party throwers. This year's bash howled as usual, but the door prize the next afternoon was a little dignity restored...
...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...United States Senate, but the interns, reporters and dubiously fortunate tourists who packed the galleries the day before had watched the Senate vote with suppressed tension. I sat and watched as the tourists--a Boy Scout troop, some sort of club of fraternal order, a lot of well-bred white high school students--fidgeted and daydreamed about the souvenir shops...
...judge Wolfe as a product, a victim, of the rural Southern environment that bred such beliefs? Or are we to judge and condemn his standards by our own? Donald succeeds in bridging a gap between these two extreme forms of interpretation. His biography of this most autobiographical of authors never excuses Wolfe's social immaturity, but it fights to prevent Wolfe himself from fading into literary exile...
This is the same man whose aimless foreign policy bred disaster in Beirut, the same man who flaunted his comprehension gap and nearly sold the farm at Iceland...