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Rhinestone Yo-Yos. COMPRE HOY Y PAGUE MANANA! shouts a huge sign atop Sears, Roebuck's mammoth Caracas department store: BUY TODAY AND PAY TOMORROW! On time payments, women in pipeless hillside shanties buy U.S.-made washing machines, and happily lug water in buckets on their heads to fill them. Specialty shops sell canned Spanish cuttlefish, rhinestone-studded yo-yos, TV sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Crimson divers Peto Smails and Kirby Von Kessler scored 77.88 and 71.9 points respectively to top Columbia's Bruce Hoy off the low board. Bill Travis was the lone three-event man for the varsity, anchoring the victorious medley and free style relay teams besides placing second to teammate Duke Geer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hawkins Sets Pool Mark as Varsity Wins | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Columbia has a good diver in Bruce Hoy and two fair short distance swimmers in Pete Martin and Dave Orrik. Martin can do the 50 in 24 seconds and Orrik covers the 100 in less than 55 seconds. Beyond this triumvirate, the Lions have little strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak Lion Team Invades IAB Pool | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...President stayed at the luxurious ranch home of Paul Hoy Helms, a bakery president and personal friend, at Smoke Tree Ranch, a plush communal enclave of businessmen in Palm Springs. (The Secret Service picked Helms's home instead of the nearby one of Co-Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Break | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Camden, N.J., far outdoing California's golden purses, the Garden State Park track p~ut up a $269,395 stake for 20 of the U.S.'s best two-year-olds. Long-shot (14-1) winner of what thus became the richest horse race in history: the Cain Hoy Stable's Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' ¶At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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