Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 touchdowns...
...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...
...high living standards and good sanitation, and rare amid the poverty and open sewers of Mexico's Lower California. Most U.S. babies, while enjoying their brief afterbirth immunities, are so carefully guarded against infection that they have no chance to develop active immunities of their own. Whereas Mexican babies in Lower California presumably are exposed to polio, and develop lifelong "active" immunities...
...when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that can be milked, a cowboy costume which, turned inside out. becomes an Indian suit...
...reading the CRIMSON article on Dartmouth, I was appalled at the display of unrestrained philistines which informed the discussion of the Baker Library murals. These paintings, "monstrous both in size and content," "a mass of jumbled color and symbol," "drawn by a Mexican" whose name Mr. Savadove did not think important enough to furnish, are counted among the greatest murals the of century. However distasteful Jose Orozco's politics may be, the merit of his art has long been acknowledged...