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...Calumet Farm's Gen. Duke, winner of $139,385 as a three-year-old in 1957 and co-favorite (with Bold Ruler) in last year's Kentucky Derby until scratched on race day, was destroyed in Lexington, Ky. Veterinarians found he was suffering from wobbles, an incurable spinal disease...
...Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway.' On the 4th of July the rebels served up roasted pig for dinner. The hostages were shown bomb casings with U.S. markings, were taken to see a dead three-year-old boy 'with a big hole in his head' from a Batista air raid. They were also harangued about the delivery of 300 rocket warheads to the Cuban air force at the Guantánamo base on May 18-the event that touched off the protest kidnapings...
Dadaism. In London, Artist Pierre de Villiers, who failed to sell a picture for eight straight years at the open-air art show on the banks of the Thames, easily sold for five guineas ($14.70) an abstract expressionist painting by his three-year-old son Romany...
...judgments on occasion prove as hasty as his stopovers. In 1955's Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also...
Only two months after French officials proclaimed the rebellion in Algeria "militarily finished," the three-year-old war passed through its bloodiest week. In five separate engagements, the French killed 427 rebels. The week's returns from the shambles brought the February total up to 3,900-more than the total U.S. dead in six months of fighting on Guadalcanal. But French casualties were higher than ever before. In February, Paris reported, France lost 297 men, killed in action, compared to 203 a year...