Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill and the fact behind it. Madison was a California farmer who had rented to the Forest Service a stallion known as Man of War Jr. One night on the trail, Man of War Jr. felt an urge. He chewed through his tether and ran off to find a mate. It was his last run, for he got tangled in the rope trailing from his neck and died of strangulation. Farmer Madison billed the Forest Service...
...from 1939 to 1943, the Republican nomination again, by a 2-to-1 margin, over his only opponent, although a foot infection kept him in a hospital bed for most of the campaign. Candidate Carr stands a good chance of unseating Democratic Governor Walter Johnson and pulling his running mate, Senator Eugene Millikin, across the line to reelection...
...rest of the characters are cut & dried. Holden seems miscast as a railroad detective with a reputation for toughness. Since he and Heroine Nancy Olson begin to bicker almost as soon as they meet, cinemaddicts will instantly sense a case of love at first sight. Director Rudolph Mate deploys his actors and camera with workmanlike skill, and the authentic settings help to give much of the film a fair degree of suspense...
...simple explanation of his success: instead of running the legs off his two-year-olds, he can afford to race them sparingly, then bring them up to the longer, richer races for three-year-olds & up. At his two stud farms in France, Boussac breeds top race horses by mating successful stallions (like Tourbillon) with proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last year...
...detail about a human friend sometimes puzzles animals: whether he is male or female. Often males decide the keeper is female, and try to fight over him or mate with him. "A tame emu in the Basle zoo," says Dr. Hediger solemnly, "reguiarly tries to mate with its keeper. If it happens with a moose . . . the man concerned is in some danger...