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...Americans and Mexicans were doing La Bamba, the latest dance to heat up Mexico City's cool nights. Just a few months ago La Bamba steamed up to the higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised...
...seemed to want to speed the last few minutes before the hour of doom in the north, told of the Russian strokes. One had breached the German lines only 24 miles from Berlin. Another had won the Seelow heights west of Küstrin. A great concentration of Cossack horsemen and tankmen was ready to gallop and clatter upon Berlin. An order of the day issued over Adolf Hitler's name shrilled that this was the last great attack...
...breakneck race of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse across convulsed and shattered Europe, the one on the pale horse has come up to run neck & neck with Famine. His name is Pestilence...
...Sides. But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks. As they had at Budapest, the two big armies of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky struck swiftly at the sides. Cossack horsemen slashed into the eastern approaches after crossing the Morava River. From a flotilla of small boats on the Danube, Red raiders leapfrogged ashore at night to attack from the rear. Infantrymen infiltrated the green Vienna Woods to the west, slammed over the main roads, then cut swiftly to the Danube, north...
...Blacked-out horsemen seriously suggested that the 70-year-old Kentucky Derby be kept alive with a spectatorless, wagerless race this spring, looked wistfully to Washington...