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...cavalryman, and I ride a flat saddle in boots and britches," he explains. "I come up to the stall, put a rope around my horse's neck, say, 'Come on, boy,' and lead him down to curry him and pick his hoofs...
...economic view of morality," said Jim Chapin, former national director of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. "If someone is drowning, you can charge them as much as you want to throw them a rope...
...Budapest acting President Matyas Szuros stood on a balcony overlooking a rally in Parliament Square and said that the 1956 uprising, which the Soviets suppressed with tanks and the hangman's rope, was actually a "national independence movement." He declared the People's Republic of Hungary, so named in 1949, dead. Now it is the Republic of Hungary, an independent state with plans to hold multiparty elections. When speakers mentioned the U.S., the crowd cheered; for the Soviet Union, there were jeers. But along with shouts of "Russians, go home!," there were chants for the man who made the scene...
...That night the fire department has to evacuate the house because of a gas leak. When a neighbor driving them to a nearby shelter gets lost, the little boy runs away and winds up at the bottom of a ravine. Corky comes to the rescue, lowering himself on a rope and climbing out with the boy on his back in a climax worthy of The Great Escape...
...wind got so strong in the third quarter that it tilted the goalposts in the closed end of the stadium. Grounds crew workers held the uprights in place for the rest of the contest with the aid of two long pieces of rope wrapped around the posts...