Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thrill of It All presents, among other things, what may be the chicest accouchement of all time: Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...Governor will be met at the State House on Beacon Hill by 18 scarlet-and-blue-uniformed members of the famed National Lancers. As is traditional, the Lancer brigade will be on horseback...
...violently anti-Peronista army and air force, which rule the country but promise a return to democracy in elections this June 23. And through it all, Argentina's 20 million citizens, inured to chaos and bored with it, went about their business, window-shopping in thronged Calle Florida, horseback riding in Palermo Park, or sitting in coffeehouses, hoping not to get hit by the stray bullets zinging around...
...Bach," says her pressagent) and Mexican mother ("a descendant of a conquistador'') in Hollywood, Yvette attended Catholic schools, studied for a year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON, as in Lord"), best known for having pasted together a puffy collage known as Jayne Mansfield...