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Jetting through five Latin nations, Vaughn showed himself to be an articulate Administration spokesman, with a special competence for the farming affairs that are a major concern of the Alliance for Progress. "I'm the son of a cowboy," explains Vaughn, who was born and raised in Columbus, Mont. He had been known in Panama as "the peasant ambassador"; after he put in an exhausting week in farmers' fields all the way from Mexico to Chile, the label seemed more appropriate than ever. Inevitably, there were formal encounters with Presidents and Cabinet ministers, but the restless, inquisitive Vaughn...
...MIDNIGHT COWBOY by James Leo Herlihy. 253 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY by James Emmit McCauley. 76 pages. Southern Methodist University. $5. "I was borned on the 14th day of August 1873, in Anderson County, Lone Star State. My parents be poor like Job's turkey. But my first memory was to ride a stick horse and my first wishes and desires was to be a wild and woolly cowboy." A wild and woolly cowboy that little boy became, and many years later, encouraged by Folk Singer John Lomax, the old wrangler rustled up a stub pencil to scribble off the story of "what...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Westerns, European Style," a documentary featuring the filming of The Sheriff Doesn't Shoot, a Spanish-Italian cowboy picture being made at Rome's Cinecitta...
...jungle and pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...