Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wyoming, Correspondent Austin was reporting for our Sport section on another outdoor activity - rodeo. Yearning to participate, he settled for a chance to display his equestrian skills on a horse named Dusty. "Despite the fact that my spurs kept falling off my Bass Weejuns, I gave a credible performance...
...assembled cowpokes were obviously impressed. They tried to cover their envy by pretending to fall down in uncontrolled fits of laughter - but of course their act did not fool me." Someone in charge at the rodeo decided that the TIME correspondent's performance merited what he interprets as a high honor: renamed for the event, one of the orneriest brahma bulls around stormed into the arena after being loudly announced as "John Austin...
Agnes de Mille, choreographer and dancer ("Oklahoma!", "Rodeo") will speak on, "The History of Dance in America," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Science Center B. Admission free...
Beecher writes work songs about mill hands who get a "shoeful of steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite) kill each other. He composes a jazzy lyric for "Kid Punch" Miller, who played trumpet with Jelly Roll Morton, and a kind of epitaph for a Pueblo Indian grave robber beset by legal problems and liquor...
...spot to beat you up." For the past six weeks, Tsosie's coalition has sponsored Saturday parades in Farmington to protest the murders and press for more services for Indians. The demonstrations were peaceful until the most recent one, when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians' original oppressors. The resulting fracas left one policeman injured and 31 Indians under arrest. "These people are just trying to stir up trouble," says Councilman Jimmy Drake. "These parades could be caused...