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...arch-conservative National Review; Queens College has vetoed student invitations to Black Muslim leader Malcolm X and to Benjamin J. Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; and Brooklyn College has put off a scheduled speech by State Assemblyman Mark Lane, because he had been arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi...
...working day begins at 3 a.m. with breakfast, and other meals are served at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.. and the menu never varies: beef, beans, potatoes. The surprising truth seems to be that the American cowboy has changed very little essentially: he is still a lone rider, taking orders resentfully, literally quitting at the drop...
Spewing mud from its tires, the motorcycle snarled into the sleepy farmyard-and plowed abruptly into a pole. Uninjured, the rider hopped off, inspected the damage, and turned to the startled farmer. "My name is Jill Savage," she said sweetly, "Could I please borrow your hammer...
...Bettors who base their choice on the jockey rather than his mount found a bonanza when crew-cut Johnny Sellers, 23, the nation's leading rider (304 winners), booted home eight straight winners, tied the U.S. record set by Howard Craig in 1951. A $2 bet parlayed on Sellers' eight mounts would have earned some...
...FOUR EYES (Medora, N. Dak.) moves closer to the 20th century, has a guitar-plunking balladeer who helps chronicle Theodore Roosevelt's four years in the badlands, showing his metamorphosis from dude to rough rider, his encounters with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a French nobleman who tried to set up a meat-packing empire long before Swift took on Armour. Following T.R.'s memoirs about the period, the pageant's Dakota cowboys take one look at his glasses and begin calling him "Four Eyes." T.R. bats all of them and sternly vows reform when he witnesses...