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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping with his hand and knees, for eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rodeos: Braving the Bulls | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Always on Sunday. Civilian Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, 63, whose signature was required to legalize the retirement ruling, buck-passed the matter to the High National Council. A civilian board set up after the anti-Khanh riots last August ostensibly to supervise the transition to constitutional rule, the council had been ridiculed as "the Na tional Museum"; it was divided, ineffectual, and more or less pro-Buddhist. The council refused to go along with the military's request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The U.S. v. the Generals | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...people who would contribute $1,000 each (it took them five months, but they made it). "Women work very hard," says Buff, "when you give them a specific goal and a time limit." She has also been successful with a mass pitch, distributing shopping bags called "Buck Bags" to raise $500,000 in contributions, to be matched by another $500,000 by an anonymous donor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Brightness in the Air | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Contemptuous of Capitalists. After the war, Kennedy left for more profitable pastures in New York, where he plunged into the stock market, earning a reputation as a clever bear. Always alert for a fast buck, he went to Hollywood in 1926, bought a film company, and started turning out low-budget potboilers. He became banker and confidant to Gloria Swanson, who named an adopted son after him. Kennedy, however, made the mistake of putting her in one of his pictures, Queen Kelly, which featured such gamy scenes as a priest administering the last rites to a madman dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Driving Will | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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