Word: equestrians
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...without any trained riding teams to enter in international jumping competitions, so for two seasons, U.S. riders watched cavalry teams from Mexico, Britain, France, Ireland, Chile and Canada jump off with all the prizes at the U.S.'s own National Horse Show. This year the International Equestrian Federation came to the rescue by ruling that civilians are just as eligible for international competitions as cavalrymen. Accordingly, as the 1950 horse show opened in Madison Square Garden last week, the U.S. was back in the saddle again...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...made one formal public appearance in Independence to dedicate a five-foot, bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson which he had presented to Jackson County. The statue-a model of a larger one which Truman had commissioned for the Kansas City courthouse when he was a county judge-had been given to him by Sculptor Charles Keck in 1934. Harry Truman had been unable to use it or give it away, and it had languished in Keek's studio for 15 years. But as a gift from a President it had become eminently acceptable and last week a crowd...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
...second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military horse still has a function and meaning. Mexico's famed Colonel Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill...