Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the white coral beach, Obolensky offered for diversion gambling at the casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...
...trench-coated foreign correspondent; of a stroke; in Abington, Pa. "Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote a worshipful biography. He got scoops for all his publishers-Hearst...
Died. Brigadier General William Jefferson Glasgow, 101, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas...
...poor rice farmer in Urbina Jado, 260 miles southwest of Quito, Miguel Olvera, 27, works as an administrative assistant at the Guayaquil Tennis Club-a job that pays him $200 a month. Francisco ("Pancho") Guzman, 21, is the son of a Guayaquil businessman and a dues-paying member of the club. Neither is particularly well known outside the country. Olvera was eliminated in the first round at Wimbledon last year, and Guzman's best showing abroad came in 1964, when he was beaten in three sets by somebody named Bill Harris in the semifinals of Miami's Orange...
Late in November of 1913, Ambrose Bierce, 71, afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished...