Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, earnest Derick Heathcoat Amory, 58, is regarded as a comer in British politics, partly because he is not too pushy about getting there. A quiet, unpretentious West Country bachelor squire who rode to hounds and managed the family textile business until World War II, he helped plan the costly Arnhem operation and, at 44, insisted on going along. Breaking a thigh in jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin...
...rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer and nearer to his goal of a third term, nobody seriously tried to put Little Rock back together again...
...Stumpy Jockey Steve Brooks, 36, who has been going around in winning track circles for almost 20 years, rode to greater glory at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Slashing away with his skillful whip, Steve got a two-year-old bay filly named Tempest Tossed to stay in front of her field for three furlongs, and became the seventh jockey in U.S. racing history to ride 3,000 winners...
...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
...alone would have sent a big-city Sunday driver screaming for the nearest parking lot. Snarling little (747 cc.) Abarth-Fiats fought for the right of way with the chesty Class "D" (up to three liters) giants-the Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn, tear through a barbed-wire fence...