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...With a peal of laughter, Felicity spurred her horse and tried to catch up to The Stable Boy. The ripe sun beat down on them as they galloped. Felicity could feel the sweat trickling down into her decolletage as she rode, and the wind tumbled her hair into glorious disarray. The half-tamed stallion coursed beneath her. “Onward, Zalathal!” she urged, striking the crop against the Spanish steed’s rippling rump...
From powerful Clinton insiders to the lowliest precinct delegate for Hillary, it was obvious over the weekend that the Clintonites were not going to let Obama tip the scales without a fight. Clinton presidential committee chairman Terry McAuliffe rode frenetically up and down Interstate 35 between Austin and Waco, dropping in on county conventions along the way to spur Hillary's supporters. "She's in this thing for the long haul. The way I look at it, this thing is basically tied," he told the Waco Tribune...
...Every star of the '50s was obliged to do Westerns, and Widmark had an undemonstrative manliness that let him ride tall in the saddle. He's terrific partnering with Jimmy Stewart in John Ford's Two Rode Together and as Jim Bowie in John Wayne's epic The Alamo. But, again proving his talent too restless to be confined to one character type, or one genre, Widmark played the idiot Dauphin in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan - a kind of sacred-fool version of Tommy...
...hasn't been arrested for a year and a half. One of nine children born to parents with drug problems, his first arrest, at 7, was for stealing baby milk and disposable diapers for his siblings. Now 18, he learned about Kids Company seven years ago as he rode on a London bus. He was about to snatch a handbag, and his accomplice was already seated next to the target, hemming her in against the window. As Walker moved to grab the bag, a stranger tapped him on the shoulder. "You don't need to do that," he said...
...craze of the 1970s, businessman Richard Burke, an avid runner, sensed a market for a high-quality, American-made bike to compete with then dominant Japanese imports. In 1976 in a red barn in Waterloo, Wis., Burke started Trek with five employees. Trek, the bike on which Lance Armstrong rode to his Tour de France victories, is now the country's largest bikemaker. Burke was 73 and died of complications following heart surgery...