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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959, and worked for almost anyone who would hire him. In 1976 Barrera developed Bold Forbes, a sprinter notoriously weak at long distances, into the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont. He was the leading trainer in both 1976 and 1977. Last year his horses earned $2.7 mil lion, and this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice, Quiet Life | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...bored businessman (Michael Sarrazin), is joined by a loose freemasonry of friends, rivals and fellow speed freaks. Among them: a libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object is to get from Manhattan to the dock of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., preferably without being busted by a perennially thwarted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Clearance | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...young person look, in the case of Mexico, at Hidalgo, at Juarez, at Zapata, at Villa, or at Lazaro Cardenas? How not to understand that these men were also young but that they made of their lives a constant and permanent struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Country Is a Silent Vietnam' | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

...independence who extended the struggle across the whole continent. We understand perfectly well that in addition to these common roots, a common struggle against the conquistadores, Mexico was the first Latin American country, which in 1938, led by a distinguished man of this land and of Latin America, President Lazaro Cardenas, nationalized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvador Allende Talks About Latin America | 10/3/1973 | See Source »

...structure of Mexico City's school system, which is divided into two competing administrative sections. All the vocational schools are under the jurisdiction of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) while all the preparatory schools (high schools) are under the jurisdiction of the National University (UNAM). Ever since Lazaro Cardenas, a famous leftist president, created the IPN for the sons of the working class in 1937 because of his frustration with the reactionary training given at the UNAM, the institute and the university have bitterly fought each other. Even the 1968 movement, which marked a high point in student unity, began...

Author: By Robert J. Hildreth, | Title: Mexico's Students: One Step in Front of The Tanks | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

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