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...cattle industry, grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after it started, the Poza Rica fire was finally...
...some orchids on this count. "Dick is the best coach I've seen in 20 years work for taking care of his men. If there's the slightest doubt in his mind that a player may seriously aggravate an injury, he'll take that boy out of the game pronto." Practicing what he preaches, trainer Cox plans to send his 14-year-old son to Exeter next year and eventually here to play under Harlow...
Results followed pronto. One Enrique Sanchez del Monte, 47, a wealthy sugar and cattle man, confessed that he had paid thugs $3,000 for the Valdés attempt, $5,000 for the boy's death. Furthermore, he had offered $6,000 for the murder of his beautiful ex-wife Maria who escaped to the U.S. with their two daughters last fortnight. His motive, if true, looked like Balzacian revenge. Valdés and the boy's lawyer-father had won Maria her divorce and custody of the two children...
...amusing," he wrote. (What's more: no more gratuitous comment from bandleaders. Said Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have bandleaders commenting on world affairs, politics and the Russian situation.") He also ordered "all yelling and whistling at the opening and the closing" of Mutual broadcasts to be stopped pronto. "It [makes] the ballroom . . . sound like a noisy saloon filled with bawdy characters intent on drowning out the music...
...Denver, Doyt Avery, 39, who served 31 months as a combat MP, nursed a fast-growing business in Pronto Pups, a product combining features of the doughnut, the hot dog, the popsicle. He was confident that other veterans would want to buy agencies...