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...Along with the traditional pomp and splendor, the show offered such a competitive match as had not been seen at the National for years. The big event: the international jumping, with teams from Mexico, France, Ireland, Canada and the U.S. The chief competitors: Mexico's famed Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 1948 Olympic champion, and France's brilliant Pierre d'Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel-but it was for secondary honors. The surprise star of the show, breaking a longtime Mexican monopoly: young...
...first voters trooped to polling places to elect Guatemala City's mayor, Humberto Gonzalez Juárez, the official candidate, foresightedly stocked up on Scotch for a victory party. That he might lose was scarcely thinkable; Gonz...
...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...
...international competition was the keenest ever, the revived U.S. team facing the top equestrian talent of Brazil, Mexico, Ireland and Canada. Appropriately, Colonel Humberto Mariles, captain of the Mexican Army team, rode off with the show's first big award, the President of Mexico Trophy, for traversing a 13-jump course on three successive mounts...
...teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military horse still has a function and meaning. Mexico's famed Colonel Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill. For three afternoons and evenings the Mexican team walked away with...