Word: polo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relative: "Tommy might have been at Yale a week-not even long enough to get his golf clubs unpacked." He worked briefly in the family lumber business, skippered a PT boat during World War II. A friend of the late Ernest Hemingway, Shevlin is an avid big-game hunter, polo player, deep-sea fisherman and golfer. Durie and Tom Shevlin now own a white colonial mansion across North Ocean Boulevard from the Joseph P. Kennedy estate in Palm Beach...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, raven-haired only child of Spain's Generalisimo Francisco Franco, and Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, tenth Marques de Villaverde, 40, heart and lung surgeon whose 17th century title puts him a notch below a grandee: their sixth child, fourth daughter...
...opening day, Cuba's soccer team was dumped 2-1 by the tiny Dutch West Indies. The water polo team was humiliated 23-4 by Panama. Next, the Cuban baseball team lost 4-3 to Puerto Rico, but not before the game had been delayed 20 minutes by a bat-swinging riot that left seven fans and players hurt...
...Lost Owl. The publisher introduced polo to the U.S.. won a walking match and a $6,000 purse, and built the Newport Casino after being barred by an exclusive club, the Reading Room, for riding his horse into the front hall. His personal income approached $1,000,000 a year, and he had no trouble finding all the companionship he wanted among the girls of the Tenderloin. But at 35 he became engaged to Caroline May, a Maryland society girl. Perhaps thinking better of this, he got drunk at a New Year's party at his fiancee...
...cricket bats, polo sticks and tea, Britain and the European Common Market reached full accord last week. Such essential adjuncts to the British way of life will continue to be imported duty-free from India and Ceylon if Britain joins the Market. Despite such progress, the protracted negotiations for British admission came close to foundering over the pivotal issue of food prices...