Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride and have to play all evening. Said one player-who prefers drugs to alcohol: "If you drank feeling that tired, you'd fall on your face...
Workers-ultimately 60,000 of them-flocked from all over Brazil, in particular from the drought-stricken northeastern bulge. "They mortgage everything to pay for a jouncing, weeklong ride in a truck to Brasilia," said a contractor. "After six months they visit home by plane...
...Oscar Niemeyer, 52, a dormant Communist ("I am too old to change," he once said), and an old pupil and admirer of Costa, casually agreed during an automobile ride with his friend Kubitschek in 1956 to design Brasilia's major buildings. He set to work at a government salary of $300 a month to make a city for "free and happy people who appreciate pure and simple things...
Every Trick in the Book. One of nine children born to a Panamanian bus driver, Ycaza learned to ride ponies as a six-year-old, trained as a jockey in Panama and Mexico. Says his agent: "They're not strict down there. Everybody rides rough." In the U.S., Ycaza quickly endeared himself to the $2 bettors as a jockey who could win with a donkey-if only because he was more than willing to try every breakneck, hot-headed trick in the books. In 1957 track stewards grounded Ycaza for 130 days for fouls; in 1958 he was ordered...
...best jockeys. A leader at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he recently flew to New York, got socked out by weather, finally landed and got to Aqueduct just 55 minutes before the day's feature race. He pulled on his silks just in time to mount and ride Mommy Dear to a win in the $28,050 Correction Handicap. Last week he had five winners in three days at Aqueduct-and not one of his rides was beneath the dignity of a man with a family coat of arms. Says Ycaza: "I used to want to win so much...