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...year-old, when the ranch held its tienta (test) for the young bulls, Gitano astounded the company with his fighting qualities: he knocked the picador's horse sprawling and gored one of the capemen. The boy was proud, but he was sad too. In two years Gitano would be sent to the corrida to be artistically butchered for the pleasure of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Greener Grass | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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