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...little choice but to become a missionary of one kind or another. The grandson of a Mormon who sired 30 children by four wives, he was born into a monogamous family in Colonia Dublan, Mexico, where Mormons from the Southwest had settled 20 years earlier. When George was five, Pancho Villa drove the U.S.-born Mormons out of Mexico, and the family went to Los Angeles. In kindergarten, children taunted him mercilessly with the sneering cry "Mexican!" Said George one day: "Look, if a kitten was born in a garage, would that make it an automobile?'' The logic...
...match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately to win the third 16-14. In the break before the fourth set, Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales rushed to the dressing room, gave Olmedo and Richardson some sound counsel. Eraser's return of service from the backhand court had been devastating. Gonzales advised the U.S. pair to go into tandem alignment; i.e., have the netman play on the same side of the court as the server, force Fraser...
Divorced. Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 30, self-assured ("I'm the best player in the world") professional tennis champion; by Henrietta Gonzales, 28; after ten years of marriage, three children ; in Los Angeles...
...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...
...land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could...