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...There was nobody out here but me and the Indians," Lohman says. He rode hard and long, took personal charge of branding and altering calves, and every couple of years made the ten-day bullock-cart trip to Concepcion for supplies. He lived through the Chaco war (though the Bolivians bombed his ranch house) and Paraguay's innumerable revolutions...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
...Cart First. Harry Truman had asked for the moon, and left Congress in the position of having to haggle over the sixpence. He had kept his campaign promise by submitting the bill. But, as he well knew, his compulsory insurance proposal -the only real issue in the bill-had little chance of passing in this session of Congress. Most critics thought the President's program was also unrealistic, because it put the cart before the horse. The nation's corps of 190,000 doctors, and the hospitals available to them, would have to be vastly expanded before they...
...second in which the circuit will be run on a ten-team setup, with both service academies and Brown back in the fold. The closest Harvard has come to winning a loop title was in 1936 when it shared honors with Dartmouth. This year it may upset the apple cart. You never can tell
...some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...