Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, he's a cowboy, and that's saying everything. If he had been born in Europe, he wouldn't have stayed but gone to Africa to hunt water buffaloes or to America to search for gold. But born in the land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned...
Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, long the Mt. Olympus of Eastern League swimming, today witnesses the last appearance of one of its immortals. Don Schollander, the 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist, is bowing out as captain of the awesome Eli team...
...evening alternative is the Russian-style, high-collared rubashka (cossack shirt), which buttons up the side and is much favored by Colonel Serge Obolensky, the White Russian public relations man from Manhattan. Italian Jet Setter Count Rodolfo Crespi dresses up his rubashka with diamond studs. Frank Sinatra adds a gold medallion, suspended from a chain around his neck...
...Indian artisans were appalled by the viceroy's cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred to the sun god and silver that once glittered in Cuzco's temple of the moon...
...Stirrups. Indian painters in Cuzco showed Christ's bleeding heart pierced by Indian arrows, and the Three Wise Men journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...