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...Negro groom stroked the colt's nose, trying to cairn him down while Trainer Eddie Neloy tightened the saddle girth. Looking on, a girl with yellow hair wanted to know why the horse was carrying 132 Ibs., like the program said, when everybody knows that a jockey only weighs 110 or so. "Lead weights," somebody said. "They stuff the saddle full of lead weights." Somebody else laughed. "This horse, they probably use gold bars instead...
...rampart since time began. Cavalrymen with slung rifles spurred forward; state officials in furs, wearing the dangling turquoise earrings of their rank, sat tiredly in the saddle; rangy muleteers in peaked caps with big earlaps goaded the baggage train up the steep path. As they passed a cairn of rocks topped by brightly colored flags printed with Buddhist prayers, each pious Tibetan added a stone to the mound, murmured the traditional litany...
...stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember," she reminded her mother before air time, "it's just another show"), she mulled over homework in an oversized kitchen (to make her look even tinier than her 4 ft. 9 in.), and with her cairn terrier, Rusty, climbed aboard her -magic chair and soared through the air to Wonderville with much the same success as Judy Garland heading...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
...Iowa. Schwartzwalder fell completely under the spell of the Rockies; every weekend and holiday he spent hiking and exploring the rugged hills around Golden. He often brought home samples of curious rocks to show his wife and to decorate their meager basement apartment. In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated-a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption in geology...