Word: riders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent tactics in attempts at integration in the South are useless unless backed up by a threat of possible of violence, John Lowry, a Freedom Rider who took part in integration picketing in Monroe, N.C., declared last night...
Like a merry-go-round pony suddenly gone berserk, Blue Boy bellowed with rage and bucketed across the arena. Spinning, rearing, kicking up clouds of acrid dust, the wild-eyed horse struggled to un seat its rider. The violent ballet lasted just ten seconds. Then a klaxon sounded and McLean vaulted gracefully to the ground. The judges' verdict: 171 out of a possible 210 points...
Split Teeth. The score was short of perfect, but the fact that he rode at all reflects the skill and daring that make Kenny McLean, at 22, the Rodeo Cow boys Association's Rookie of the Year, and the hottest young bronc rider ever to crash the big-time rodeo circuit. In almost any other sport, McLean would have been riding the bench. The night before, he split two teeth and was carted to the hospital unconscious after tumbling heavily from an evil-tempered bronc. "Ken ny's horse took a run from the gate," says fellow bronc...
...developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise of the 1961 tour, McLean won ten "ridings," placed in the money in 34 rodeos, earned $14,648, and was bucked off his mount only three times all season. Says Veteran Rider Williams: "Kenny really 'charges' a horse. He overrides most of them a bit, throws all caution to the winds. He's one of the wildest spurring cowboys in the business-and the best newcomer I've ever seen...
Last week Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries had on display the first one-man Münter show in the U.S.-44 paintings whose colors glow in bright chunks and whose landscapes shimmer under blazing skies. Gabriele is the sole surviving member of Germany's Blue Rider group, which included not only Kandinsky but Franz Marc and Paul Klee.* In spite of her bright palette, there is no gaiety in her canvases; they are intense, charged with emotion, and all a trifle sad-like the artist herself...