Word: gymkhana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Reserve (235 boys), Colorado's Fountain Valley, California's Cote, which puts on classical drama in the original languages. California's Thacher shuns football but requires every boy to own and operate his own horse for two years. Top event there is a gymkhana featuring orange-spearing at full gallop. Equally important now: a summer program in math and astronautics. One smart crew of Thacher satellite trackers recently exposed an error in Russian data...
...pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...