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...Matter of Votes. But no sooner did Kennedy enter the White House than much of that brave campaign talk about civil rights went by the boards. As it happens, Massachusetts-bred Jack and Bobby Kennedy both genuinely believe in equal rights. But as it also happens, there is such a thing as practical politics-and the Kennedys figured that they would need Southern Democratic votes in Congress if the New Frontier's legislative programs were to have a chance of passage...
...spite of his farm-bred love of land and custom. John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary-a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church's past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors seem like voices of another...
...trial at all for well-bred Britons to keep a stiff upper lip all the way through Dunkirk, the Blitz and Suez. But through eight straight losses to the U.S. in the Walker Cup-now really, chaps, that was a bit much to ask. Englishmen take their golf seriously; after all, they practically invented the game. Actually, it was the Scots-but surely the Empire still stretches that...
...perform the mean chores (walking "hots,"' mucking out stalls) expected of budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year, and for Hirsch Jacobs' Affectionately, top candidate for Filly of the Year. Mexican American Herberto Hinojosa, 26, was the leading jockey (61 wins in 229 tries) at Florida...
These qualities, along with the country that bred them and the civilization that nurtured them...