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...country, but obviously Acapulco is not the best spot to avoid running into Uncle Max. This has given a certain vogue to a number of fishing villages in Baja California. But for the cognoscenti, this year's top country is Guatemala, where the most In resort is Chichicastenango ("Chichi" to the real swingers...
...nation last year and ranked third in purses (with $1,975,118). Of all the Latin Americans, Baeza is the best. The son and grandson of jockeys, he grew up around the tack room of Panama City's Juan Franco race track, where President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was assassinated in 1955. He learned to ride at six, won his first race at 15. Purses in Panama were small and the horses were cheap. "Most of them looked like goats," Baeza recalls. But he quickly became known as a crafty and patient "sit-still" jockey...
...find Nelson less successful in his drawings, which contain something of the chichi. With a pen, his style tightens and he devolves overly intricate objects from a seemingly never-ending sinuous line...
Pause Between a Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists...
After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant tongue, and with it, a noise less associated with Belgravia than The Bronx...