Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, hardly conventional weekend from college, the Aga Khan, Harvard senior, flew to London, stopped at The Cygnet's House finishing school to call for 17-year-old Sylvia Casablancas, daughter of a Mexican businessman. Driving on to Woburn Abbey, the Aga and his possible Begum quietly visited his aunt, the Duchess of Bedford...
...West Germany's fine jumping team was having things its own way last week. With only two competitors still to jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing 36.9 seconds to beat Winkler...
Following close debate, the name of General Winfield Scott, hero of the Mexican War and top-ranked Union officer in the 1860s, was returned to the membership rolls of the University of South Carolina's Clariosophic Society. The college debaters purged Scott when he stuck by the Union at the outset of the Civil War. A century later, some Clariosophomores still think Virginia's Scott was "a man with the blood of our predecessors dripping from his hands"; but the ayes had seen his glory coming...
Died. William Frank Buckley, 77, far-right-wing capitalist, onetime (1908-n) lawyer for Mexican oil firms, who struck it rich with his own fields, bitterly anti-progressive-education theorist, who last year (TIME, March 4, 1957) founded a school on his Sharon, Conn, estate, to produce an intellectual elite (mostly his own grandchildren) who would be safeguarded from "the blight of liberalism and Communism"; in Manhattan...
Despite this change, the Mexican composer emphasized, music is still a language that is not exactly equivalent to any other language, and an artist is still "nothing but a messenger...