Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just after noon one day last week, Roberto, as his teammates called him, rode his horse up the steep path to tiny (pop. 150) San Pedro del Alto. Ten yards behind followed his Mexican assistant, Raul Sanchez. About 40 yards farther back rode three soldiers (the only armed men in the party) and a guide. Topping the rise, Roberto rode slowly up to the church on the sunbaked, cactus-hedged plaza. As he was about to dismount, he suddenly cried to Sanchez: "Get out quick, go back...
They sang with untrained voices, and as if they loved the music. An eleven-year-old named Sally Sheppard sang a solo in a sweet alto, ". . . in a stable, 'mid lowing of kine, Mary kept watch o'er the infant divine . . ." As she sang, cattle could be heard lowing in a red barn just behind the church. Some of the audience sat with clenched hands; a few farmers' wives dabbed at their eyes when Jane Carpenter, 16, and Leanna Livingston, 17, sang a duet: "Come, thou long-expected Jesus...
...game will be played at Palo Alto on September 24. Registration follows two days later, Bender pointed out, and the only way to get back by Monday afternoon is to fly, as the team will...
...soloists will be--Soprano: Cynthia Sweeney, Radcliffe '50; Alto: Marion Hawkes, New England Conservatory; Tenor; Robert Gartside, Harvard '50; and Bass: Paul Tibbetts, Harvard...
...miles and $17,000 to Pale Alto, California, but the Band may be playing there come next September 24 and The Harvard-Stanford football game...