Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Golfer Lee Trevino won last year because he could "talk a cowgirl out of her boots." Now the 700 members of the Girls Rodeo Association have given their "Man on the Trail" award to part-time Cowboy Steve Ford, 19, the President's youngest son. Despite competition from Actors Warren Beatty and Tennis Star Jimmy Connors, Ford rode off with the prize, a silver belt buckle. "He's just about the closest thing to the big man in Washington−an outdoor type with executive demeanor," cooed Association President Margaret demons. "The girls would love...
...film Funny Lady is not Caan's idea of athletics. He was therefore relieved to get away for a day at New York's Aqueduct race track to check up with the trainer of his five horses there and get his colors registered. Jimmy, a veteran rodeo rider, has decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white - a Jewish cowboy, Jimmy loves the Irish. Even if he were not famous, he would catch every stooper's eye. "Dappled out" is racing talk for a fit horse. Lean...
Pain is also having a thumb almost wrenched out in rodeo competition. His bandaged fist parries the air, occasionally landing a light jab on the nearest arm or ribs. At Aqueduct, guys who know him from somewhere keep coming up for bouts of camaraderie. Jimmy loves it. Unlike Lauren Bacall, he will never be stumped to think of a friend who is not famous. "I have friends from 15 years - guys I played ball with...
...S.P.L.C. On the side, he used his direct-mail savvy to raise money for politicians, among them George McGovern, for whose 1972 campaign his mailings raked in $20 million. Dees plays as he works-swimming as if a shark were after him, riding with the recklessness of a professional rodeo cowboy, which he once was part-time. But the son of a white Alabama farmer reserves his greatest passion for the cause of the South's blacks...
...University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers $500 to any student with a 2.5 grade-point average-who also has roped calves in a rodeo. And the Union Pacific Railroad offers 300 scholarships of $400 each to students living in counties its trains pass through...