Word: riders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roosevelt began by pressing for water conservation in the arid West. He won the power to establish the nation's natural and historical treasures as national monuments, then ingeniously outflanked an attempt to wipe out many of the nation's national forests. Faced with a forest-eliminating rider to a bill for much-needed funds, Teddy responded with wilderness-bred cunning. In the ten days before signing the funds bill, he simply proclaimed the establishment of 16 million new acres of national forest. He sat up nights until dawn with Pinchot poring over topographical maps, deciding which lands...
...children, television addicts, and those who relish cinema cliches. The large cliche collection here assembled includes the Reincarnated Hero, the Perilous Quest, the Lost City and the ravishingly beautiful woman who is really 2,000 years old. But She is no copycat; Britain's H. Rider Haggard wrote it in 1886,* 51 years before Ronald Colman ever heard of Shangri...
...were broken, good mustangs made good riding horses-some of them, in fact, displayed undeniable genius. In the 1880s, the authors report, a horse in Texas was trained to run backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...
Gadgets Galore. The fact that James Bond has developed into the biggest masscult hero of the decade has given serious pause to such as Britain's Novelist Kingsley Amis who ranks Fleming "with those demigiants of an earlier day, Jules Verne, Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle"; and to Columbia's Jacques Barzun, who deplores "the studies by academic critics who have argued over Fleming's morals and philosophies...
York World's Fair-but there is also Pussy Galore, to say nothing of Tilly Masterson and her gilded sister Jill, Tatiana Romanova, and Honeychile Rider...