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...others are more or less mixed descendants of the Xoloizcuintle,* the hairless, edible dog of the Aztecs. "Xolos" have been neglected until recently, but last week Norman P. Wright, a onetime British diplomat living in Mexico, was well on the way to establishing them as a rare, high-fashion breed...
...sizes. The few to be found in other countries were also nonstandardized. This is not what a breeder wants, so Wright made three long trips to the primitive parts of tropical Guerrero and managed to buy eight Xolos that matched old pictures and descriptions of the genuine Aztec breed. He found that in remote regions they are still used as hot-water bottles, but he was not offered any roasted puppies...
...wail at his wake. "He was the most hated man on earth," says Yvonne, in hushed, almost reverent tones. "But he could have been one of the great men in history. He was a genius." Which is rather like praising a man-eating shark for being Best of Breed...
...things which most distinguishes the American university from its European counterpart is the prevailing custom of marriage in graduate school. Ever since World War II graduate schools have been teeming with married students. Whether this sociological change has resulted in a more stable and serene breed of student is unknown, but it has undoubtedly had something to do with a startling rise in the birth rate among the educated classes. Not to be surpassed by the Veteran's Villages of the state universities, Harvard has recently done its bit to foster the large cultivated family, and incidentally save America from...
...four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well be a fixture on Capitol Hill for years to come...