Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flown & Faked. In the last ten years, the boom has grown to such proportions that the government has all but given up hope of keeping Mexico's treasures at home. Some officials are collectors themselves-and not above turning a fast peso on a good piece. They make smuggling ridiculously easy. Reaching the border with a station wagon full of pre-Columbian art, ex-Jockey and Art-Quiz Whiz Billy Pearson was "prepared to start throwing money around." The customs man demanded only food. "For a case of chilis," wrote Pearson in his autobiography, "I got through the border...
...latest wrinkle in the trade was all but inevitable. With everyone scrambling for pre-Columbian art, local Indians have learned to copy the originals handed to them by dealers, are selling fakes to gullible tourists as fast as they can make them. And some are so well done that even the art dealers get clipped on an occasional imitation Mayan...
...underdogs. At New York's Madison Square Garden, sharpshooting St. John's of Brooklyn beat top-seeded Bradley 76-71, in overtime, to win the National Invitation Tournament. In Louisville's Freedom Hall, California's underrated Golden Bears slowed West Virginia's fast break, squeezed out a 71-70 upset victory in the N.C.A.A. championship finals...
...Florida one priest bet another that Marshal Matt Dillon was faster on the draw than Paladin-loser to say early Mass on Sunday. Tie-in sales of toys suggested by TV westerns are expected to hit $125 million this year. And at last count, the U.S. had about 600 "fast-draw clubs...
...hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they are happy men." Says Motivational Researcher Ernest Dichter: "America grew too fast, and we have lost something in the process. The western story offers us a way to return to the soil, a chance to redefine our roots...