Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best first novel out of Britain is Beggars on Horseback (Atlantic-Little, Brown) by James Mossman, 39. A tall, blond and handsome TV personality who was once a British foreign-service staffer, Mossman has written a satire on colonial debacle that is almost as savagely hilarious as Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief. Mossman sets his scene in a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom on which the British are losing their traditional grip. The incumbent king is a corpulent pederast who splashes in a gold-plated bathtub while his people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police...
...flirtations were so well noted that her mother packed her off to Europe at 16-only to have Nellie return with a dandified English worshiper in tow. Alice Roosevelt (who will attend this week's wedding) scandalized Washington 60 years ago by smoking cigarettes in public and riding horseback in breeches...
...CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned...
Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally...
...really time to swing, with all-night parties in motels and rooming houses or, in Saugatuck, Mich., on boats moored in the Kalamazoo River. One Pittsburgh coed, summer-schooling at U.C.L.A. and summering in and around the Oar House at Santa Monica, describes her routine as "swimming, horseback riding, necking-the usual things...