Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Palden and Hope spent a month surveying the damage, trekking across the mountainous landscape by Jeep and horseback. "It was an arduous month," she remembers, "but we had to see how bad it was and what we could do." Palden's policy is to visit each village in the kingdom at least once every three years, and Hope goes with him whenever possible, even visiting areas close to hostile Communist China...
...years, the industry joke goes, National Educational Television has been little more than a pony-express system, delivering its programs by stages. Beginning next week, NET will leave the horseback era and become almost a network, broadcasting programs simultaneously across the nation for two hours, five nights a week...
Hand and Foot. The son of an Auckland garage owner, McLaren started tinkering with cars at 15, after a horseback-riding injury ruled out the usual boyhood sports. That same year, he entered his father's Austin in a hill-climbing race and finished second in his class. By the time he was 21 he had established himself as his country's foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working...
...zone at the city's international airport, where goods could be warehoused or even partially processed. Business has consistently increased ever since, and the one-room office has given way to magnificent quarters downtown, where Abu-Haidar arrives at 8 each morning after a two-hour gallop on horseback outside the city...
...longer is horseback riding restricted to traditional horsy enclaves, dude ranches and city bridle paths; it has now massively infiltrated suburbia and even spread to blue-collar areas, where a new status symbol, instead of a second car, can be a stable alongside the garage. In Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone...