Word: rodeoing
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...spectators had to make do for 3,500. Unshaven cowboys in faded Levi's waved fistfuls of greenbacks and haggled over the odds with Houston oilmen in embroidered shirts. A volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share of the bets, and undisputed claim to being the best calf roper in the world...
...Steers. The sport that made Will Rogers a rodeo star originated with the vaqueros of Spanish Mexico, spread across the West in the mid-1800s. At first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump...
...Touch of Rodeo. But if 1962's opening audience was not memorable, the show they saw was livelier than any in years. Energetic Lawyer James A. Thomas Jr., 38, the show's new president, who used to be an outstanding contestant himself, cut the running time by starting the jumps higher; opening-night suburbanites could watch U.S. Team Captain William Steinkraus win the nerve-stretching ''Democrat'' Memorial Challenge Trophy* and still catch the midnight train home. Thomas also pepped up the show with a rodeo touch: cowgirls racing quarter horses around a cloverleaf barrel...
Stoney Burke (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). An interesting new series about life under the stands at the rodeo...
...learned to fly, barnstormed by himself throughout the West, landed at strange airports in wind, rain, snow, hail and sleet. He would do almost anything to win delegates or favorable headlines. For the Kennedy cause, he rode a bucking bronco for a respectable five seconds in a Montana rodeo. On a foray into Wisconsin, he made the first ski jump of his life. He balked only at holding a cigarette in his mouth for a sharpshooter in Wyoming...