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Twenty-five million Americans attend rodeos each year to watch the sport most incapable of being fixed. There are now special convict, Negro, High-School, 4-H and Indian rodeos; there is even a National Inter-Collegiate Rodeo Association with 83 members. The Rodeo lobby has enough strength to pressure Congress into passing a bill authorizing a Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Despite the growing spectator quality of the sport, it continues to evoke strong loyalty. When I asked Jay T. if he would ever quit the rodeo, he replied, "Why no. It's mah profession."GALOOTS...
...Davies family moved to North Dakota in 1917. settled in Grand Forks, where Ronald became a high-school scatback ("I didn't do too well through the line. They had to shake me loose"). He worked his way through the University of North Dakota (as a soda jerk and clothing-store clerk), ran the 100-yd. dash on the track team. "I was getting awfully tired of running second all the time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have...
Born 52 years ago in Crookston, Minn., Ronald Davies was one of the four children (a brother died of high-school football injuries) of Country Editor Norwood S. Davies and Minnie M. Quigley Davies, still sprightly at 77 ("She'd play bridge three nights a week yet." says Judge Davies, "and all night if you'd stay with her"). Ronald delivered 125 copies of the daily Crookston Times for $1.50 a week, had his knuckles regularly rapped with a ruler in parochial school by a Sister Milburga. "God love her, she's gone," says Judge Davies...
Such rugged academic programs attract crack high-school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about...
...Science has been passed up on the high-school level," says Silber. "It usually is presented in an uninteresting manner, and as a result, the students are shying away. I'm sure we're helping to break down that barrier." Silber can prove his point. All five of last year's seniors are going to college, will either major in science subjects or take many such courses along...