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...greatest first round, decked Champion Jack Dempsey and later belted him clear out of the ring, but was floored seven times himself and finally finished after three more knockdowns in the second round; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. When Dempsey later visited Firpo, who became a wealthy cattleman, with 10,000 head on six Argentine ranches, he commented: "When a boxer leaves the ring ... he has lost the fight. In my heart, Firpo was world champion of all weights...
DROP IN BEEF PRICES this summer is predicted by American National Cattleman's Association. Reason: U.S. population growth justifies 1,000,000-head cattle increase per year, but over last two years U.S. has built up backlog of 8,500,000 head, and price will break sharply when this stampede hits market...
...that shook the industry four years ago (TIME, May 7, 1956). Said President James L. Runyan of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "Cattlemen don't like the situation, but they are able to stand it. It's not like periods in the past, when cattleman after cattleman went broke...
...Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium, Md., virtually all honors in the Devon bull competition were swept by a Western cattleman. His bulls took blue ribbons for Grand Champion bull, Best Pair of bulls and Best Bull Calf. Owner: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse...
...Flag. Trujillo threw his 15,000-man army into the fighting, called up reserves, sent his "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion'' of retired army men to guard the Haitian border, mobilized the "Horsemen of the East"-a private army led by Cattleman (and former consul in New York) Felix Bernardino. At sea, suspicious Dominican gunboats stopped the U.S. freighter Florida State three times on one of its regular cement-carrying round trips between Puerto Rico and Florida. In the air, a Dominican PSI fired a burst of machine-gun fire and lowered its wheels to force a U.S. Air Force...