Word: hler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Stud-Farms of the World by Monique and Hans D. Dossenbach, Hans Joachim Köhler (Morrow; 289 pages; $35). The authors have composed an encyclopedic and lushly illustrated celebration of horses and the places where they are bred. Surely the animal has not received such intelligently loving attention since Siegfried Sassoon published his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man in 1928. After tracing the history of horse breeding to the time when the animals first entered the service of man some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors...
...note relayed to the West German ambassador's residence in Guatemala City had been scribbled hastily by the ambassador himself. "Do not be afraid," wrote Count Karl von Spreti, 62, to his son Alessandro, 11. "My health is good, my heart is as stout as the Bühler Höhe [a well-known hill in Bavaria's Black Forest]. I am treated with respect and courtesy. I embrace you fondly. Papi." Last week, shortly after he wrote that note, the ambassador was murdered with a bullet behind the right...