Word: equestrianism
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...grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members came from Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter touchdowns, 27-20. The tide...
...international competition was the keenest ever, the revived U.S. team facing the top equestrian talent of Brazil, Mexico, Ireland and Canada. Appropriately, Colonel Humberto Mariles, captain of the Mexican Army team, rode off with the show's first big award, the President of Mexico Trophy, for traversing a 13-jump course on three successive mounts...
...equestrian team, now one & the same as the U.S. Olympic team, produced an added attraction: Mrs. Carol Durand, 33, the wife of a Kansas City insurance executive, and the first woman ever chosen as a U.S. Olympic team member. This week, against the world's best riders, Mrs. Durand got her third white ribbon (fourth place) in the International Jumping Stake...
...over Buenos Aires, flags waved and banners proclaimed a welcome to Olympic visitors. But even the star performers in the first Pan-American Olympic games-to be held at 21 different sites, from the light opera theater (weightlifting) to the Campo de Mayo military post (equestrian sports)-could not get top billing last week over the two champion hurdlers of Argentine politics, Juan and Eva Peron...