Word: baca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The week's hottest gunfight: a re-creation of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, an upright youth who gunned down a rampaging mob for 33 hours to bring order to a small New Mexico town...
...Russian-speaking Reporter Harrison E. Salisbury, longtime (1949-54) Moscow correspondent. Molotov spun through 40 rooms of art in an hour, suggesting by changes in his usually granite features that he was taken by Rubens and Tintoretto, curious about an obscure painting of J. P. Morgan-by Carlos Baca-Flor, disdainful of Salvador Dali's recent The Crucifixion. After seeing the best of the Met's European works, Molotov asked to see some American paintings...
...wisdom off his chest, Thompson got down to business. He was there to sell 306 purebred Hereford cattle from the nearby Switzer & Field ranch. Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
...over the U.S. His record $506,000 for a single day's selling, set at the auction of Colorado Rancher Dan Thornton's Hereford herd in 1947, still stands (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), as does the $65,000 bid at which he sold the prize bull Baca Duke II last year. Only eight Hereford bulls have ever been sold for more than $50,000. Colonel Thompson has auctioned them...
...More Questions? In London, ten-year-old Roy Scott asked his mother: "What's a thunderbolt?", got the answer as one hit the roof with a blinding flash. In Montrose, Colo., lightning knocked down Austin Baca, who arose just before a second bolt knocked him down again...