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With the season exactly one third over, the regular first line of Captain Dave Key, Carman, and Bill Garrity leads ni total scoring, with 32 points on 16 goals and 16 assists. In the light-blinking department, Doug Anderson is high man with eight goals. He has also registered two assists. Best playmaker so far has been the former Exeter center, Miles Huntington, who has been operating on the same line with Dave Abbot for the past five years, here and previously at Exeter. He has set up eight goals this winter, while scoring five himself...
...soldiers and civilians. At a quarter to 7 gongs rang, warning of curfew. Cries of "hurry, hurry home" sounded on the streets. Shopkeepers hastily boarded up their stalls. By 7 the streets were deserted and quiet save for military patrols with their rough bayonet-pointed challenge to late passersby: "Ni shut...
Because of la cometa, more people than usual were praying in Mexico City churches, but they lighted fewer candles at the altars. Explained sad-eyed Maria Rodríguez, as she stood in the queue at the corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent...
...Mexican government exchanged notes of sympathy, and plans were made for an impressive joint funeral. But, sad to say, the common fate of the 16 did not contribute to international understanding. Instead, U.S.-Mexican friendship, which had blossomed steadily since Harry Truman laid a wreath on the Niños Heróes monument (TIME, March 17, 1947), was shaken to its roots...
Mexicans crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...