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Twenty different courses are offered this fall including instruction in such courses as scuba-diving, tennis, yoga, sailing, and horseback riding...
...weekday practice sessions in Manhattan's Central Park are somewhat more democratic: volunteers are allowed to join the fun when one of the riders becomes winded. Occasionally a pony-polo expert decides to give the game a try. He is usually disappointed. "It's easier on horseback," a high-ranking rider from Colombia discovered last week. "You don't have to pedal the horse...
...remembered as the original of that perennial threat to shaky governments, "the man on horseback." Adoring crowds threw themselves on the tracks at the Gare de Lyon to keep him from leaving Paris. Three hundred songs were written about him, and copies by the thousands were hawked in the streets. Fast-selling lines of dishes, pens and bric-a-brac carried his portrait to the consuming public. On Bastille Day 1886, when he rode down the Champs-Elysées on his great black horse, all France lay at his feet. Indeed, on three occasions General Georges Ernest Jean Marie...
...type of government that Arabs seem to feel most comfortable with is an autocratic one, preferably military. "Arab politics," comments Lebanese Political Scientist Elie Salem, "has always ridden on horseback. Salvation is expected from the army." Having saved a country, the army is loath to share power. Even if the rebellious officers had won in the Sudan two weeks ago, outside observers believe, they would soon have turned on the Communists who gave them support...
...woman lost in the '70s. Hester Glenn, 48, is a daughter of the town's First Family, accustomed to finding her opinions prevailing, like the order of nature. With her usual demanding expectations, Miss Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless sons more or less as if Appomattox (and her marriage) had never happened...