Word: vazquez
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...Johnson was in the White House and the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night was climbing the 1964 record charts. Last week brought more bad news for the second largest U.S. wire service, which emerged from bankruptcy proceedings last June when it was bought by Mexican Newspaper Publisher Mario Vazquez Rana. The New York Times revealed that on Dec. 31 it would cancel its basic contract with U.P.I. (The Times still wants to use the wire's photo service.) Estimated cost of the dropped service: close to $1 million a year. The paper apparently aims to bolster its New York...
MARRIED. Miguel Vazquez, 18, the world's greatest trapeze artist and the only aerialist ever to execute a quadruple somersault; and Rosa Segrera, 21, his flying partner; both for the first time; in Venice, Fla., the winter home of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. After a Roman Catholic ceremony, a circus parade, including elephants, tigers and clowns, wound its way to an arena where the newlyweds climbed the trapeze for their first flight as husband and wife. They rode off atop an elephant wearing flower garlands and a JUST MARRIED sign...
Three award winners: > Morris High, the South Bronx, New York. When Frances Vazquez, 35, became the principal of Morris in 1979, the school was racked by violence. Located in one of the most depressed neighborhoods in the nation, Morris had an enrollment of 1,700 pupils that was 35% black and 65% Hispanic, many of them recent immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America. "When I first arrived, I would not have used the staircase," recalls Vazquez. "Groups of kids were hanging around the halls and simply not attending classes...
...Vazquez is in her office by 6:15 a.m. to run a program that now balances hard work and discipline with understanding and support. Students and their parents must sign contracts with the teacher to certify that they understand course requirements. Half an hour's homework is demanded in every subject every night...
Even when their outstretched hands connected, Miguel and Juan Vazquez were not quite sure they had done it. "I didn't believe it," says Juan. "And I asked myself, 'Did I catch him?' " Miguel, his younger brother, was also uncertain. Says he: "It all happened so fast that only when I looked down and saw the floor did I know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking...