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...lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those who would compete with the Evangelists. He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel: "The Lord who knows the bottom of our Mexican souls knows that I am not blaspheming...
...gentle, unorthodox type who thinks a boy should pick a school and then play football, and this is contrary to recruiting doctrine these days in football's big time. This year Michigan managed only two victories (both by a single point) in its first seven games. Beset by injuries to key players and hanged in effigy by students, Bennie decided he had had enough, stepped down last week to be replaced by his backfield assistant, Chalmers ("Bump") Elliott, 33. ¶ To the cheers of a record crowd of 40,276 at Maryland's Laurel Race Course...
...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
...nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan's cry, as he unsheathes his blowgun and prepares to stand off the foe: "The little son of a bitch is going to need help...
...farm prices in the rest of the U.S.-and the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party has no peer at making Benson the villain. Even popular Republican Senator Ed Thye is in critical trouble, although running hard on an anti-Benson program. In the Ninth Congressional District, Democrat Coya Knutson is beset with family and factional problems, but is expected to win narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least...