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...Panama's Braulio Baeza, 23, could have had just such a homecoming. Panamanians were woozy with pride. Aboard Chateaugay, Baeza had become the first foreign jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby. As if that was not enough, the second horse, Never Bend, was ridden by another Panamanian, Manuel Ycaza. In Panama City fans clustered around TV sets to watch reruns of the Derby. One station ran the tape four times in a single day. Light & Hungry. Neither Baeza nor Ycaza is another Arcaro or another Willie Shoemaker-yet. But they are the stars of a band of Latin...
...followed his merchant father to the U.S., learned the banking business from cage to vault at San Francisco's Bank of Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle in Mexico and helped him start Mexico City's splendid Hipodromo de las Americas race track on an army parade ground. Avila Camacho's successor, Miguel Aleman, also became friendly with Pagliai, helped him to form his seamless tube...
...ever promised Miro "or anyone else, that we were going to launch a military invasion with six divisions." Said an Administration aide: "Good God, we have all sorts of contingency plans, but we never could and never would spill the details to «-Miro." A fellow exile leader, Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, said: "I never knew of a promise by President Kennedy for a second invasion of Cuba...
...Died. Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt. 83, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Havana, a slight, stooped man who opposed both Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Castro; in Havana...
...strapping chestnut with curious black and white spots on his rump, who prefers to dwell in the pack, then turn on a withering burst of speed in the stretch. And the horses could hardly have more contrasting jockeys. Never Bend's regular rider is fiery Panamanian Manuel Ycaza, 25, whose terrible-tempered tactics earn him almost as much time on suspension as in the saddle. Candy Spots's jockey is coldly efficient Willie Shoemaker, 31, the top money-winning jockey ($2,916,844 last year) in the world...