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Show DREW PEARSO Congressional Junket for Peace OEN. GLEN TAYLOR of Idaho, a former cowboy vaudeville crooner O who has come to win the respect of his senatorial colleagues, will take an unusual trip this summer Whde some senators will be junketing to Alaska or touring Europe, Taylor will ride horseback from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. The senator from Idaho candidly admits that it is a publicity stunt, but not for Tavlor, lor peace. Alone the way. Taylor plans to speak for the United Nations and world cooperation. At the last session of congress, he helped introduce a bill to strengthen the United Nations and help eliminate the veto power by which one nation can hold up the peace efforts of the rest of the world. Taylor feels that the Middle West is becoming isolationist, is worried over the threat of war and wants to dramatize the problem of peace. The Idaho senator planned to buy two horses in California and begin his trek from the Golden Gate bridge. San Francisco. One horse will follow behind on a trailer, while he rides the other, alternating each day. Taylor says he plans to ride horseback every inch of the way, even including in-cluding western deserts and the Rocky mountains. He figures the trip will take him three months. i a. |