Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a dozen others, none of them first-rate until, in late 1957, he bought Hillsdale for $25,000. No one was impressed. Two of Smitty's friends turned down the chance to buy a share in the horse. Jockey Eddie Arcaro politely declined the chance to ride him. But here and there, Hillsdale, a handsome horse of undistinguished bloodlines, began to win. Since September the big colt has not been beaten, has whipped such headliners as Jewel's Reward and Round Table. In all, Smitty's $25,000 horse has won him a tidy...
Though the 854 Russian technicians have brought along their families to India, they employ no servants. They ride in buses instead of private cars or Jeeps. The Russians work 16 hours a day, are careful never to mention politics. But the most effective Soviet ploy of all has been their insistence that every Russian of top rank must have his Indian counterpart. "Here," says one enthusiastic Indian at Bhilai, "we work shoulder to shoulder with the Russians. Elsewhere, we work under the foreigners...
...twisting trails that lace the flanks of Vermont's Mt. Mansfield, traffic was so heavy that skiers had trouble keeping out of one another's way. On Michigan's Boyne Mountain, colorfully garbed schussboomers cheerfully endured long waits to ride lifts up the glistening white mountainside. Restaurants on Colorado's Aspen Mountain were overrun with crowds. Thousands left their sitzmarks on the deep powder slopes of California's Sierras and Washington's Cascade range. Whenever there was snow, busloads of weekend skiers left New York and Chicago at first light, and in Nevada deserts...
...Monday morning. In the final congressional result $4.8 billion of that cut survived. Military men displease Clarence Cannon anyway. "They always want to fight the next war with old weapons," he says. "We had the deuce of a time getting them to give up the cavalry. They liked to ride those horses." By the simple expedient of packing his Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, he lopped the Navy's atomic-powered supercarrier out of the defense budget last year. Yet at the same time he was one of the earliest and strongest advocates of the atomic submarine...
...system really works. That's why we need a test-pilot type-daredevil but stoic." The first stoic satellite daredevil has not yet been picked, but last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration signed a contract (see BUSINESS) for the hollow, upholstered meteorite in which he will ride...