Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor's mansion at Salt Lake City, Utah rode a cowboy on a pinto pony last month. The cowboy was Denver Post Reporter Robert Fenwick, masquerading in chaps and ten-gallon hat. To amused Governor J. Bracken Lee he presented one silver spur and an invitation to come to Denver to pick up the other one. Twelve times during the month Cowboy Fenwick and his pony (carted around in a truck) repeated the stunt at other state capitols in what Post Editor and Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt likes to call the "Rocky Mountain Empire...
...camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses or in their own cars...
...Washington he raised his molasses-smooth, Dixie-thick voice for old-age pensions, WPA, wage and hour laws. He became an accomplished wangler of federal funds. He rode blandly along on Franklin Roosevelt's coattails. He was resourceful in debate, and sometimes brilliant. He could spread demagoguery like warm butter on hoecakes. Florida re-elected him twice, and he began to look like a permanent fixture in the U.S. Senate...
Smith can paint a miniature portrait with a few swift strokes, as in last week's column about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands...
...took the 15,000 Sadhus three hours to march down the three-mile route to the water. Most wore saffron robes or loin cloths, but 2,000 of the holiest were naked. Each of the seven Akharas (orders) had its painted elephant, and at the head of each order rode its leader, shaded by a red umbrella. Six of the leaders were in palanquins carried by six men; the chief of the rough, tough Bairagi order rode in a jeep...