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Next came horseback riding, at summer camp in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Johnna had begun taking dance lessons at the prestigious School of American Ballet. An idle observer at first, Gelsey was soon trying steps in front of a mirror. Weiss remembers her as "the little sister who always hung around and got in the way." Before too long, Gelsey decided that Johnna's way belonged...
...followed a policeman who was on horseback, and the only path he could clear for us through the crowd was on cobblestones on the trolley track. We ran the last six miles over cobblestone following a horse's ass," he said, adding that he ran in "one dollar sneakers with 15 cent inner soles because there were no running shoes back then...
After a year, his visa came through: the editor of The New Yorker had agreed to sponsor him. In July 1942 Steinberg landed in Miami and caught a bus to New York, enjoying the "noble view, as from horseback," of America as it rolled by. He had come home to his definitive expatriation...
...applied to Chile, Argentina or Uruguay, of course. What sets Costa Rica apart is the fact that, outside of a McHale's Navy consisting of three gunboats, it maintains no armed forces beyond the civil and rural guards. That largely precludes the possibility of any man on horseback seizing power by force. With no external enemies or guerrilla problem to deal with, Costa Ricans feel no need for armed muscle. Shrugs Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio: "If we spent money on arms, we would probably have a smaller per capita income...
...forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown all over a survey crew and its truck. Unamused...