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...because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired by Ribot, two-time winner of the Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, Tom Rolfe was foaled by the stakes-winning mare Pocahontas. Owner Raymond Guest, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, named him after the son of the real Pocahontas, who grew tobacco in the days when smoking was still a social sort of vice...
There is nothing dead-pan about Mare Temin's archy; he delivers his lines with velocity, emphasis, and evident feeling. Although there are places where this is appropriate, there are more, particularly in the beginning, where it is not. Because the audience reacts slowly, it misses entirely some of the good moments that hurry past...
Paul A. Cantor, English, of Lowell House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Irving R. Epstein, chemistry and physics, of Dunster House and Flushing, N.Y.; William P. Frerking, philosophy, of Quincy House and St. Louis, Mo.; Richard N. Lyons, mathematics, of Adams House and New York City: Mare E. Saperatein, English, of Leverett House and Malverne. N.Y.; Barry M. Simon, physics, of Winthrop House and Brooklyn. N.Y.: Peter H. Wagschal, social relations, of Lowell House and Denver Colo.: William F. Weld, classics, of Adams House and Smithtown...
Most surprisingly, Bismarck judged his fellow Junkers to be overly stiff and inbred. He recommended that they loosen up and get some elan by marrying Jews; an ideal match, he said, "would bring together a Christian stallion of German breed with a Jewish mare." His whole life was dedicated to making the once lowly Prussian monarchs the most powerful kings of Europe; yet he lied to them and fought with them, sneered that the Hohenzollerns were Johnny-come-latelies from Swabia...
...Tranquillity was the target picked before the launch. Ranger VII had photographed a fairly smooth-looking place now called the Mare Cognitum (Known Sea) and found it to be pocked with small pits apparently made by chunks of rock tossed out of the crater Copernicus. A lunar landing vehicle might have serious trouble with such pits, and the hope was that the Sea of Tranquillity would prove to be smoother...