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...HISTORICAL and mythical material is constantly enlivened by the author's own eye and ear for the social customs of the region. He switches easily from the details of daily life--Pedro watching his kint on her knees grinding corn--to those of religious ceremony--Pedro helping prepare the food to be buried with his father. But his special sensitivity is his knack of combining the ordinary with the lofty, comparing the ecstasies of the saints, for instance, to eating chiles ("The heat is fine for a time, but afterwards the discomfort in the back field is too great...
...Kint, in the downhill, was clocked at 2:46, 18 seconds behind the winner MacLean, following Meservey and Nunemacher of Dartmouth...
...backstroke, Eleanor Holm's spectacular figures have long been washed away. In Rotterdam two years ago, Holland's young Cor Kint set four world's backstroke records: 100 yards, 100 meters, 150 yards, 200 meters. Her record-breaking time for 100 yards is 1:05.1-4.7 sec. faster than the U.S. record set by glamorous Gloria Callen last spring...
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