Word: vickie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third victim was found, mutilated by sharks, floating in the surf off Southland beach. She was a pretty, brown-haired office secretary named Dorothy Rawlinson, 29, who had arrived from London in May and liked to sunbathe alone. In the soft pink sand, the cops found a copy of Vicki Baum's thriller, Mortgage on Life, a pair of blood-spattered shorts and a bathing suit...
...scouts could not possibly hope to find a full bag of authentic Chinese, settled for any vaguely Oriental features. Dancer Denise Quan is really Canadian of Chinese origin. Shawnee Smith is American Indian (Hopi) and English. Vicki Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School) of Filipino-English origin. Mary Huie, of Chinese origin, was working as a clerk for Revlon when a scout spotted her on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue (she thought she was facing an attempted pickup when the stranger approached her with: "How would you like to be in a Broadway show...
...Vicki Mariles is two years under the official minimum age for international competition, was competing only by courtesy of a special dispensation from the Fédération Equestre Internationale. But Mariles is no ordinary name in international horsemanship. Her father, Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 45, is one of the world's great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly...
...Vicki," says Papa Mariles, "she has a very strong character and lots of courage. Berto, he is more quiet, his trouble is he don't turn the corners too well. Vicki, she turns those corners very well. She knows that is how you save time, but she still has to learn one important thing. You see, when a horse is racing fast, he flattens out across the jump. When he comes down, you have to encourage him a little-go 'Hah! Hah! Hah!' in his ear to help him go over the next jump...
...general obviously seeks perfection. But at show's end, Vicki and Berto tied for sixth in the individual rankings, a highly creditable performance in competition against the world's best horsemen. Father Mariles had obviously produced a pair of successors Mexico could be proud...