Word: cockfights
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...Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
...three years the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been fighting the cockfighters. S.P.C.A. officials estimate that a secret syndicate of 18 to 20 "big-wheel" promoters in California operate a cockfight business running to more than a million dollars annually. With the efficiency of an underground boxing commission, "the syndicate" coordinates matches in "mains" (bigtime cockpits) at Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Monterey, Visalia and El Centro, issues guides to lesser known pits in vineyards nearby. It also keeps tabs on championships, betting odds and bird prices, buys off the law when...
...Hanover, Pa., Hanover Craftsmen, Inc. announced a special chair for televiewers. Modeled after an old English cockfight chair, it is built so that a man can straddle it, rest his elbows on the back and put his drink (or dark glasses) on a built-in dropleaf tray. Women can sidesaddle. Price: $95 and up, depending on the upholstery...
...championship cockfight some young bloods showed up to serenade the Señoritas Velandia. Flushed with tender sentiment and wine, they arrived at Casimiro's home with a band. Father Velandia beamed. But it went on & on, without regard for the fighting cocks roosting in a nearby tree. Casimiro grew nervous, then irritated, then thoroughly alarmed over the disturbed rest of his birds. "Stop the music!" he finally ordered. The serenaders refused; they had hired the musicians for the whole evening...
...north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across the South, big illegal pits run wide open, from Pass Christian, Miss, to Clovis, N.Mex...