Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the early articles, and liberally sprinkled the magazine with the Rube Goldberg-esque diagrams that he made for his machines. But within a year of its founding, he sold it. He had an idea for a rifle with a revolving chamber and foolishly sold it to Samuel Colt of Hartford for $100. In 1849, Porter tried to promote his old St. Helena airship as a safe way to fly gold rushers to California in three days. The years passed. No one would listen; he was ahead of his time, a crackpot, an eccentric. None of his inventions left...
...footwear once produced by U.S. workers are increasingly entering the domestic market from countries that have pools of lower-wage labor. Next year all of Ford's small Mavericks will be built in Canada, and Chrysler last week announced that in 1971 it will introduce a Dodge Colt line manufactured in Japan by Mitsubishi. For the first time, an American automaker will offer a Japanese-made car in its showrooms...
...have been in a friendship that goes back to 1932 and summer stock. Now the old cronies have teamed up again in The Cheyenne Social Club, a wonderfully outdated odyssey of bawdy innocence. True, the film is populated with more pasteboard characters than you could empty a pair of Colt Peacemakers at. There is not just one whore with a heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors...
...nine daily racing sheets predicted, a chestnut colt named Tanino Moutiers from Hokkaido broke away from the field of 22 three-year-olds to win the l½-mile race. The purse of $63,000 raised his total earnings to $284,000, a record for three-year-olds inJapan. At the finish, poorer but poetic grandstanders followed tradition by throwing their losing tickets in the air in unison to simulate the falling of cherry blossoms...
THOMAS L. MCCLINTOCK Colt's Neck...