Word: barne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Town's Table Mountain, that looks toward the point where the royal blue waters of the Indian Ocean merge into the Atlantic, a huge and stately house rears its white bulk among acres of hydrangeas. The house is Groote Schuur (Great Barn); once it belonged to famed Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes; Rudyard Kipling used to winter there. Past its well-stocked deer park one morning last week sped a shiny. Packard sedan, followed by a Ford. Shortly after 11 a.m., the Packard drew up outside South Africa's Parliament House in Cape Town six miles away...
WHRB's weekly request show, "Barn Howl," will feature live performances by New England and Greater Boston hillbilly stars Sunday, April 20. The program will be designed to appeal to devotees of Western and Hillbilly music...
...rough trail to the Andy Andersen ranch, 60 miles from the scene of his last killing. The owner, who was reading a note dropped from the air, got into his own car and skidded off to telephone the law as Ellis took refuge in Andersen's barn. Soon airplanes began landing on Andersen's sloping fields, sending cattle scurrying in all directions. By noon 100 heavily armed ranchers had the killer surrounded...
...Capture. The posse settled down warily to wait for the law. But Ellis set the barn on fire. It burned to smoldering ruins. When the ranchers discovered that Ellis had taken refuge in a tool shed behind it, they opened up with volleys from deer rifles, pistols, shotguns and .225. Six hundred rounds were fired. "Come out!" a rancher yelled. There was no answer. Several hundred more rounds cracked into the shack. Then Ellis, hit by six bullets, and dying, called "I'm through. Come...
...orator or a great speaker," he said. "I just want to meet people, and discuss . . . issues with them." Then, with snowstorms crippling his schedule, he headed across the state, shook a hand wherever he found one stuck out of a sleeve. He stopped at a cattle sales barn outside North Platte, made a short speech from the auctioneer's stand. At Lexington, when he had to wait until 3 a.m. for a train, he stretched out on a hard bench, pulled his hat over his eyes, and took a nap. Beside him he carefully laid Lexington's gift...