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...first words were "How's your golf?" The athletic J.F.K. was too "restless" to play well, and Richard Nixon displayed a strange combination of obsession and guilelessness. Gerald Ford, of course, "made golf a contact sport." Reagan "once broke 100 and that's pretty good for a man on horseback." Hope saves his real affection for celebrities little known for their low handicaps, including Humphrey Bogart and Ruby Keeler. The wildest amateur: Babe Ruth. The smoothest: Joe Louis. Even nongolfers can enjoy the gossip, the jokes and some 100 black-and-white photographs of performers and politicians. Although Hope claims...
...horseback, the warlord had to stand out from the anonymous mass of his footsloggers, archers and pikemen. In full rig, cased like a land crab in the formal armor that was designed to protect him against sword cuts and even the slow-flying lead balls of a matchlock, he was a sight: the armor consisted of hundreds of lacquered leather platelets, like fish scales, bound together with silk cord. But his mask, finial, badge and troops' standard, all in one, was the helmet, on whose design much fantasy and theatrical cunning were expended. Because they were an inviting target...
Like the pickup truck and Interstate 40, Knox fails to fit Hollywood's western stereotype: he is a cowboy poet. Despite the apparent oxymoron, verse has its place on the range, and Knox and his fellow horseback balladeers capture well the cowboy's changing world...
...that the document, which happened to be sitting in his office, was one of 25 that existed in the world at the time. It was one of those that had been printed the night of July 4, 1776. One of those that had been handed to men on horseback and sent around the 13 colonies. One of those that were read aloud in the town squares...
...distrito, tents where anyone can take the stage?enthusiasm is more important than talent. Be prepared to stay up late: the party doesn't start until 9 p.m. and goes on until 6 a.m. Despite the late nights, Sevillanos start off with a midday parade of local landowners on horseback and in ornate horse-drawn carriages. And after the parade, everyone retires to their favorite caseta?and the dancing, eating and drinking start again. tel: (34-954) 59 29 15; www. turismo.sevilla.org