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...T.W.A. won air routes to Europe, Africa and Asia, rightly changed its name to Trans World Airlines. (Frye also enlivened the society pages; when he married his third of four wives, the ceremony was performed in Arizona's Echo Canyon, and the bridal couple rode there on horseback...
Generals on Horseback. In the strange person of Chairman Clarence Cannon the House's polarization of power reaches its extremes in the Appropriations Committee, which can send its bills to the floor without going through Rules. Speaker Rayburn cordially dislikes Cannon, a sentiment which is more than reciprocated. Yet somehow the two old men, each playing by the House rules, seem to balance each other. In 1950, when Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon pushed his pet "one-package" appropriations bill (all main appropriations in one lump sum so the world could see the awful enormity of it all) through the House...
...smoke, they must use firearms. Beyond that, the only thing the man knows about the U.S. frontier is that Jesse James is "a frightful female." He is therefore rather astonished when several improperly dressed individuals with bright paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident he disarms and captures-a severe dressing down. "My dear fellow, this coach was traveling at a legal rate of speed on a public highway...
...hunted underground chief. On a later swing he took off to the hills to see Castro, watched an air-ground battle from behind rebel lines. TIME early reported that Castro was acting "like a king," and might "become the brilliant liberator his young followers see or a man on horseback.'' Last week's bloodshed provided a clearly seen guidepost for a long, reflective yet dramatic report, at a time when the crucial facts were at hand. See THE HEMISPHERE'S Cover story. The Vengeful Visionary...
...give up his mounts and rest. Fortnight ago at Florida's Tropical Park, the pain became unbearable. Last week, at 42, on the advice of his physician, he retired. Said he: "I guess I've been around the world a couple of times on horseback in the afternoon. Maybe that's enough...