Word: cornes
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...sleepy corn-and-cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
Keyed up by corn liquor, the crowd watched the scoreless game tensely until the referee made a disputed decision: seconds later the pistols were drawn and machete-swinging spectators poured onto the field. In 20 minutes six were dead and six seriously injured. Police restored order, but the game could not go on. Rivera had been hacked to death and Ayala severely wounded by gunfire...
...richness in the gullet. The secret goes back to 1866, when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest white corn, the best rye, barley malt, both fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four...
...getting ready for the campaign's call to alarms. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, as the Democratic presidential nominee, had work to do, but his chores as a top news figure were ordained by a flock of newshawks. He was photographed clipping rosebushes, climbing fences, chasing sheep, petting dogs, pulling corn, bringing in the mail, hauling groceries...
...A.M.A. last week added its voice to those already raised in warning (TIME, Aug. 6), against two widely publicized new "wonder" diets: the "Rockefeller" (low-protein) diet and the "fabulous formula" diet of corn oil, dextrose and evaporated milk. The A.M.A. Journal reports noted that both diets could drop the patient below the minimum protein requirement, thus upsetting the bodily nitrogen balance and leading to a variety of deficiency diseases. "Fortunately, few people will adhere to either of these diets for long . . . But there are compulsive dieters, just as there are compulsive drinkers . . . and in these subjects harm...