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...starts off promisingly as a character study of tensions among the hard-riding, hard-living members of the broken-bone-and-bandage set, but soon falls into a conventional movie mold. A Texas cowhand (Arthur Kennedy) becomes a champion rider with the help of a has-been rodeo ace (Robert Mitchum). But Kennedy has a beautiful red-haired wife (Susan Hay-ward). So just as much action begins to develop outside the rodeo arena as inside when the two men tangle over the lady. The gustiest characterization in The Lusty Men is provided by Arthur Hunnicutt as a punchy...
Died. Brigadier General Frederick S. Foltz, 94, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime Indian fighter, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '79); in Washington. Shortly after his graduation. Foltz, an outstanding rider and marksman, commanded troops stationed on the Canadian border to prevent hostile Indians from escaping into Canada...
...Bion ("Bi") Shively was crazy over horses. By the time he was twelve, he was a full-fledged jockey, booting them home at the county fairs. At 17, Bi quit jockeying and transferred his affections to harness racing, a sport in which oldsters have long excelled. But a kid rider's hell-for-leather zest could not make do for the good, grey experience required to steer a careering sulky behind a winning trotter or pacer. Bi was still learning the rudiments of the harness sport in 1898 when he was called to the Spanish-American...
...drive for adjournment hit hidden shoals, however, when the $10 billion supplemental appropriations bill came out of a House-Senate conference still carrying a House rider which would cut atomic-energy funds in half and seriously restrict construction of new atomic installations. Rising to the attack, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, in a surprising burst of stirring and statesmanlike oratory, warned that the rider would blunt the U.S. atomic-energy program at a critical stage. Passionately, he demanded that the bill be sent back to conference for another try at removal of the rider...
...Paul Douglas, Majority Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona. In an attempt to save the day for the Senate's let's-get-out-of-Washington faction, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar got to his tired old feet. McKellar swore that the House would never abandon the rider, and that, anyway, the bill wasn't such a bad one. But after McKellar had slumped back into his chair, Hickenlooper and his supporters won the day. At dawn, in a turbulent voice vote, the Senate sent the bill back to conference. This week the conference reached a compromise...