Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times spent far too much space and money on national and international coverage, while he concentrated on local events in a lighter fashion at less expense. Why should he pay for half the cost of printing presidential speeches verbatim? Replied a Timesman: "We paid for half the Cub Scout pictures in the Free Press...
...neighborhood mothers hold up as a model to their own recalcitrant youngsters. He was a Roman Catholic altar boy and a newspaper delivery boy, a pitcher on his parochial school's baseball team and manager of its football team. At twelve years and three months, he became an Eagle Scout, one of the youngest on record. To all outward appearances, the family in which he grew up in Lake Worth, Fla.?including two younger brothers besides his mother and father, a moderately successful plumbing contractor?was a typical American family. Charlie joined the Marines in 1959 when...
...remains out from under this twelve feet of cold concrete if you have to quarry me out." So, reasoned his grandson, would William F. Cody have reacted to his final resting place on Lookout Mountain outside Denver. Cody, Wyo., diehards have never succeeded in rustling the U.S. cavalry scout's body out from under all that concrete thoughtfully poured by Colorado officials,* but this summer they have managed to bring the feud to something like a draw with an authentic re-creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting...
...King. To Western lovers whose text is the TV screen and the local movie house, the news that Buffalo Bill collected art may sound downright subversive. In fact, it was darned shrewd. Many of the paintings featured old Bill himself, adding luster to his legend. But as a chief scout for the U.S. cavalry and later King of the Cowboys in his own Wild West show, he had a genuine interest in preserving an image of the West that he had known...
...wife. Kidnaped once by Apaches, she yearns to go back to the tribe because her husband (Dennis Weaver) doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...