Word: texan
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Died. Maximilian ("Max") Justice Hirsch, 88, famed horse trainer who sent out three Kentucky Derby winners in a career that stretched over 78 years; of a heart attack; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. There was never any other life for the Texan. He was an exercise boy at ten, a full-fledged jockey at 14, a trainer at 20. He handled more than 1,900 winners, among them Derby Champions Bold Venture (1936), Assault (1946), and Middleground (1950), but always refused to take sole credit. "Luck plays the most important role," he once said, "not the trainer...
...Rich Texan...
...England's finest. Hap Sharp, a Texas sportsman who once raced the Chaparral car for General Motors came to the rescue. In hopes of raising money, the club had sent appeals to various alumni and polo players. Sharp responded with a gift of six ponies. Vince Mulford, another Texan, donated a seventh...
...assassination. He was charged with providing the new President with a flow of ideas; among those he helped shape was the Johnsonian conception of the Great Society. He also served, more and more uneasily, as a general liaison man, trying to improve relations between the brilliant but unread Texan President and the intellectual community. "Congratulations and condolences," an academic friend quipped when Goldman first went to Washington. "Nobody has had a better job since the N.A.A.C.P. sent a man to Mississippi...
Minister to Marauder. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 42, is a stocky Texan of Mexican extraction who once was an itinerant, guitar-playing Pentecostal minister. Coming to Rio Arriba in 1962, he formed an alliance to promote the establishment of a "Free City State of San Joaquin." Later he organized the Federal Alliance of Free City States, laying claim to Spanish land grants covering 35 million acres in New Mexico, 72 million in Arizona. 400 million in Texas, 698 million in California. But it was chiefly in Rio Arriba that Tijerina helped launch a campaign of terror...