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They have tugged the couches around in the Oval Office, forming a fireside rectangle for informal talking. A few of Ronald Reagan's gadgets are in place on the desk that John Kennedy retrieved from the White House basement. But a Remington bronze of a cowboy and the paintings on the curved walls are from the defunct presidency of Jimmy Carter. The huge grandfather clock installed by President Ford still thumps out its relentless rhythm. Beyond the tall windows, the sun slants across the South Lawn, where Thomas Jefferson had mounds graded to add visual interest. Fresh-cut flowers...
...town, where singles apartments and condominiums are concentrated. In the San Francisco Bay area, where there are more than 125 of the clubs, prospective two-steppers can dial a special number (652-2792) to find out where the action is. Some newcomers are lured to Detroit's Urban Cowboy, the most successful C&W spread in Michigan, by truck drivers who tout its charms on their CBs. The Boston area, with a full-time AM country-music station, has about 30 clubs offering C&W entertainment. Mr. McNasty's, a former gay leather bar in Kenmore Square that...
Washington is one major citv in the nation where a night-blooming cowboy has no place to hang his ten-gallon. The desert will be greened in March when Mike O'Harro, 41, who owns two of the capital's most popular discos plans to open a C & W establishment in Georgetown. The venture will be aimed at what O'Harro calls "Government superchic, not rednecks." While conservative Washingtonians are more attuned to Blue Moon than bluegrass, O'Harro is confident that his Saddletramp saloon will be a boomer. As Ronald Reagan's rancheros take...
...mechanical bulls that tempt and toss the urban cowboy sell for $7,500 each, about $5,000 more than they cost Gilley's Bronco Shop Inc. in Houston to manufacture. The bionic beast is mounted on a pedestal and powered by a 5-h.p. electric motor that is operated by remote control. El Toro has graded levels of difficulty, working up from a bovine shimmy designated One to a shake-and-break Ten. The headless, vinyl-and-steel contraption was developed as a teaching aid for rodeo cowboys by New Mexico Inventor Joe Turner, who sold his patent...
...required to sign waivers absolving the owners from responsibility for injury. The very prospect of danger can be a potent spur. Peter Szymanski, 26, a computer technician from Gardner, Mass., took such a bad fall at Boston's Celebration that he had to nurse twelve stitches under his cowboy hat. "It hasn't scared me," he shrugs, relishing his moment of glory. "I knew I was going to get hurt. It was only a question of where and when." Did he plan to ride again? "No problem...