Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Falange's emergence from several years in the shadows. Spain's Dictator Franco rules by a shrewd playing off of three groups: army, church and party. When the Nazis and Fascists rode high, Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his Falange ride high. When Hitler and Mussolini were beaten, Franco discouraged the Falange's Fascist salute and uniformed parades, hoping thereby to gain a little credit with the victors of World War II. After a long, wily fight, his strategy paid off. He signed a concordat with the Vatican, a great gain for the church. (Last week Spain...
...know tobacco best-Philip Morris' Board Chairman Al Lyon, 67, and Benson & Hedges' President Joseph Cullman Jr., 71-have the same hobby: horseback riding. Last week they decided to ride the same horse, i.e., merge their fast-growing companies. The new company will keep the Philip Morris name and officers, absorb Cullman as chairman of the executive committee, his son Joseph III as a vice president. But the Cullmans will continue to run Benson & Hedges as a separate division...
Frederika did not mind at all. She loved being allowed to ride on Florence streetcars, leaping up to give her seat to the elderly while she herself clung to a strap. Generally hatless, informally dressed and never too neat ("I don't believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...
...Shan't Need It. As the years passed, Marc repeated his "joke" again and again until some of his friends got bored with it. He even made arrangements with the undertaker for his burial in the family vault. The fish merchant took him for a ride on his lurching truck one day and tried to warn him: "Your soul will be eternally damned," but Marc only answered, "I must do what I must...
...third race at Belmont early this week, Earl had himself a mount. Trainer Hirsch Jacobs asked him to ride Honest Bread, an undistinguished three-year-old gelding who finished out of the money in his only start this year. The crowd gave the bald little jockey a roaring reception, and sentimentally made his horse the second favorite. Jockey Sande brought his mount in third. "I got a little tired and so did the horse," said Sande, "but at least we didn't dissolve our partnership...