Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been guarding for public introduction on April 13. Thus it was little wonder that Fred Olmsted, the automotive editor of Detroit's Free Press, stopped in astonishment last week when, in a Detroit parking lot, he spotted a red convertible emblazoned with the insignia of a galloping stallion...
...those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid her on, and the sleeves of her dress--" the saffron dress with the golden border. Then the black and white men of court return and Aegon thinks of "Lesbos when the beach turned gray" and "the gray stallion of the autumn." And finally Clytemnestra returns--with neither her husband nor his mistress, but with the blood of both. She flings her cloak open: it shines blood scarlet. She wraps it around her; still the scarlet lining shows, till the last light is out and there is silence...
Into Competition. In those days Pacific lived in the shadow of President Tully C. Knoles, who was wont to dress up like Buffalo Bill, with his goatee jutting, and lead parades aboard a white stallion. But when Knoles died in 1959, the school found in his longtime assistant a distinctly different leader. Eying California's booming public citadels of learning, President Robert E. Burns saw that private Pacific was out of the competition...
...daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
...Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller played host last week to newsmen while honeymooning at Monte Sacro, a 14,826 acre Rockefeller ranch in Venezuela. Invited by her new husband to pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse in the lot." Rockefeller was less proud, but amused, when Happy walked up to one animal in the cattle herd and quipped: "This is the first time I have been face-to-face with a bull." Whispered the Governor: "That...