Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photographer Smith, who has long been fascinated by their story, signed his telegrams to TIME "Meriwether Smith." And just as they did, he encountered hardships, for the territory is still largely uninhabited and many sites were accessible only by foot, horseback or canoe...
...revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained that Costa Rica's President (1917-19) Federico Tinoco had given him the pistol in 1917, when Dulles was traveling on horseback through the jungles of Central America. It turned out that Dulles on this ride had indeed used his Smith & Wesson, to kill a wildcat...
...Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels had begun. The person who went off in all directions was Lord...
First, there is a holdover from Bronx days named George Drobes, who intrigues Margie because he has a jalopy named Penelope and his kisses tingle. But to Mama, George is just a snuffling auto mechanic. When the wealthy son of a department-store owner brings Margie home after a horseback-riding spill in Central Park, Mama lights up. But her social grasp exceeds the Morgenstern economic reach, and the new romance fades. Margie doesn't really care. Her destiny, she feels, is to be an actress. She has long since scribbled her stage name on a scrap of paper...
Such lofty, light and airy abstractions, the tower's inventor believes, would be a great and welcome change from the traditional bronze men on horseback, men in capes, and men thinking, chin in hand. But Sculptor Nicolas Schoffer, 43, does not stop at purely visual effects. He got a composer friend to extract a musical tone from each plaque on his tower (by banging or rubbing each one separately) and record the sounds together on tape. Then he persuaded an engineer to build an electronic "brain" for the tower which "plays" the tones according to the effects of light...