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...McWThirters now comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in no countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points. To determine that Henry I was the leading sire of illegitimate children among British monarchs (at least 20, by six mistresses), they consulted twelve volumes of peerage records. And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...Sire,--to make the Council more workable than the present group...
When the swift little stallion was gaveled off at over-the-counter prices in 1957, the suggestion of such a future seemed absurd. His lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price...
...rules of thoroughbred racing, the tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board...
...Eyskens' bill was no longer the lone, clear issue among the swirling mobs of strikers and the Socialist slogan slingers. The dammed-up bitterness of a nation sharply divided for generations was flowing again, underlining anew the point made by a statesman to his King 40 years ago: "Sire, there are no Belgians. There are only Flemings and Walloons." The largely agricultural Flemings of the Dutch-speaking north for years have felt that successive governments have discriminated against them in favor of the French-speaking Walloons of the industrial south, where pay generally is higher. More recently, the strongly...