Word: broussard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor at Abbeville's yearly Dairy Festival. Atop a speaker's platform adorned with red, white and blue bunting and "Symington for President" signs, he smilingly endured the Missouri Waltz played on an electric organ, then permitted photographers to snap away as Dairy Festival Queen Laurie Lee Broussard, 17, planted a decorous kiss on his cheek...
...bayou folk swam, clung, gasped and prayed for their lives. Those lucky enough to reach specks of dry land found only more terror: with them were alligators and water moccasins, tossed out of the torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand...
...SKIPPY BROUSSARD Lafayette...
...border was open to most Mexican cattle from September 1952 to May 1953, refused to let the Charolais in because they came from a tick-infested area. So early this year, without a by-your-leave from anyone, Gilly walked the herd across the drought-dried Rio Grande, and Broussard took them by truck to Louisiana...
...Broussard, arrested on charges of smuggling and concealing cattle, was released on $2,000 bond, and the U.S. demanded $1,080,000 (actual value of the herd by Government computation) in duty penalties. Last week federal officials were preparing to present their case against Broussard to a grand jury. Mexico demanded that the Charolais be returned, but the U.S., ever fearful of foot-and-mouth contagion and southern tick fever, wondered whether it shouldn't slaughter the cattle and wind up the case once...