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...Mulroy resigned a year ago, shortly after he was named as one of several Illinois Democratic politicians who bought io^-a-share stock in the Chicago Downs Association and made a profit of 1,650% in two years. Mulroy's stock transactions occurred after the 1949 Illinois general assembly passed and Governor Stevenson signed a bill to permit Chicago Downs to sponsor harness racing...
...Bosporus (meaning ox or cow ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan...
...Newcastle United, Britain's Football Association Challenge Cup, over Arsenal, io; in London. Some 100,000, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, jammed Wembley Stadium for Britain's World Series final...
...Gotta Win." The Giants soon lost a tough game, io. As Durocher, a lover of the historical present tense, recalls the clubhouse scene: "Stanky comes into the clubhouse after the game and starts throwing things, taking it out on the furniture about those lucky bastards winning that one. He finally takes a kick at the water cooler and the bottle falls and breaks and the ice goes all over the floor and there's a hell of a ruckus. Now Al Dark has a good day that day. As I remember it, we get six hits...
...group of students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...