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...expected of budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year, and for Hirsch Jacobs' Affectionately, top candidate for Filly of the Year. Mexican American Herberto Hinojosa, 26, was the leading jockey (61 wins in 229 tries) at Florida's Tropical Park this winter, won more than...
...usual optimists had a field day, the fence-sitters felt stirrings of commitment, and even the normally cautious allowed themselves a grunt or two of satisfaction. The sentiments of U.S. businessmen, from the corporate chief to the corner clothier, were captured by Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co.: "The current upswing in business seems to have something for everybody." Only six months ago many trendspotters had worried aloud about a mild recession in 1963, but the 20 professional economists reporting to the semiofficial Business Council last week saw the gross national product rising 4% to $578 billion...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (4) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (3) 5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (9) 6. Triumph, Wylie (7) 7. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (5) 8. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (8) 9. The Centaur, Updike 10. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton...
Physically, James "took the cure" at the baths of Teplitz. Academically, he obtained it in Dresden, Berlin, and Heidelberg where he studied under Du Bois, Reymond, Virchow, and Helmholtz. And for his spiritual malaise he subsituted at moments what he called "a sort of inward serenity and joy in living, derived from reading Goethe and Schiller...
Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell...