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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...
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...
...authorities of the city colleges abused their freedom to disapprove. This fall, Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Brooklyn college delayed a speech by Mark Lane, a New York State Assemblyman who was indicted in Mississippi for his actions as a Freedom Rider; and Queens College revoked student invitations to Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslims, and to Benjamin Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party. (The ban on Davis provoked the discredited October 26 ruling...
...cancellations have also provoked protest. Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim movement, was prohibited from speaking on the Queens College campus; Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the National Review; and Brooklyn College delayed the speech of State Assemblyman Mark Lane, whose arrest as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi reportedly cast doubts over the propriety of his speaking under college auspices...