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...mixed. To enjoy the very foreignness that gives the visitors the exhilarating sense of being far away while still close to home, it is also necessary to come to terms with the special Mexican ambiente. The mañana era may be over, but it has been succeeded by hay tiempo ("there's time"). Some hotels have clocks with no hands, apparently to prove that time does not count. Sometimes hay tiempo also means late planes, canceled tours and misplaced hotel reservations. "We're trying as hard as we can to be more efficient," says one tour official...
...obverse of Harry Truman's comment on April 13, 1945, the day after Franklin Roosevelt's death and his own swearing-in as President. "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you," he told a group of reporters, "but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen...
...that he will presumably be coming to the U.S. more often. Harlech announced that he will send his 15-year-old daughter, Alice Ormsby-Gore, to Manhattan's Dalton School for the coming spring term. Alice will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle and all her swinging siblings: Julian, 27, a London film maker and male fashion model; Jane, 25, wife...
...ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that their identities are hard to hide. And no club has stricter rules. Unlike other clubs, where a member merely has to vouch for his guests, for example, Augusta members must physically accompany guests around the course to make certain all niceties are observed; if a member is suddenly called...
...Last December the temperature in three hospital sections fell to 39 in the daytime. . . . The superintendent and his men brought in a hay dryer from the barn, rigged it up Rube Goldberg style, and this helped push hot air to the sections involved . . . water coming into the hospital has been found to be polluted...