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...Perry Link of Dunster House and Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Glen J. Pearcy of Quincy House and St. Louis, Mo., will each receive $5000 to spend a year in foreign countries carrying out personally conceived, non-academic projects...
...Glen Ellyn...
...town, plying his trade in a succession of arenas, paying his own way and earning only what he is good enough to win. In ten years on the bigtime rodeo circuit, driving 70,-000 miles a year, sleeping in trailers and nursing an ulcer, New Mexico's Glen Franklin, 29, has won more "go-rounds" and money ($152,481) than most. Until last week, though, one prize had always eluded him: the silver and gold belt buckle and embossed saddle that are awarded each year to the winner of the Rodeo Cowboys Association's calf-roping championship...
Windmill to Victory. From that point on, though, the contest is strictly man against beast. Last week, at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Franklin gave a superb demonstration of his skills. On his seventh "go-round," Glen lost precious seconds when he got off to a slow start, had to chase his calf halfway across the arena before he got within lariat range. Leaping out of the saddle, pigging string clutched in his teeth, he flung the calf to the ground and climbed astride, pinning the flailing legs between his own knees and "windmilling" the string around...
...century, doing her homework by firelight. Writer Ron Kriss surveyed the situation-and spent the night in his office. Ed Shook, stalled in a commuter train in Grand Central, finally made it home to Larchmont in a rented car at 4 a.m. Bruce Henderson arrived at his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., shortly after the lights went out in New York, and spent a well-lit evening just outside the blackout area...