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DIED. DOLORES OLMEDO PATINO, 88, prickly art patron who housed the world's biggest collection of works by Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, his wife; in Mexico City. Rivera willed his and Kahlo's works to Mexico, leaving Olmedo Patino, a former Rivera model and friend, in charge of the trust controlling them. Though she founded a museum dedicated to the couple, she drew criticism for her derision of Kahlo (who, she said, was famous only because of her marriage to Rivera) and her tight rein on the artists' works and archives, which she kept for long periods...
With Boston leading 5-4 in the sixth following John Valentin's three-run homer, Giambi hit a bases-loaded single off Jim Corsi, who had relieved Tim Harikkala (1-1). One out later, Olmedo Saenz added an RBI double...
...want to underline that the situation in the country has been duly controlled to guarantee the peace and tranquility that the state should assure for its citizens," said a statement released by Justice and Interior Minister Olmedo Miranda...
...Davis Cup so regularly (eleven out of the last 13 years) that nobody else remembers whether the silver monstrosity holds one magnum of champagne or two. The U.S. had not reached the Challenge Round since 1959, and the last time it won was in 1958-when Peruvian Alex Olmedo took the Pledge of Allegiance with his fingers crossed. But last week an American team finally took the cup home...
...times. But the grand days of U.S. amateur tennis supremacy, like those of Ivy League football, are long gone. Since 1950, Australia's strong-armed youngsters have ruled the courts; the U.S. has won only twice, the last time in 1958-and then with a Peruvian, Alex Olmedo, playing as a member of the U.S. team. In 1960 and 1961, the U.S. could not even make the finals, bowing out both times to Italy in interzone competition. Last week the U.S. 1962 Davis Cup team ran true to form: it lost to Mexico in the American zone preliminaries...