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John Holbrook, one of the demonstrators, said that the demonstration's date was chosen to coincide with the visit in Boston of Juan Carlos Corral, leader of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadotes and a well-known Argentinian left-wing politician who has been placed on the published death-list of the rightist Anti-Communist Alliance...
Ballet Lessons. "I like to work with animals," explained Foreman recently after tossing his Doberman, Stocky, into the swimming pool and riding his aging mare, Lady, around his backyard corral. "Some day I'll have as many dogs as you can count," he says. Considering the sort of dogs he buys, that could come to quite a sum. This summer Foreman paid $27,000 for yet another prizewinning German shepherd...
...gunmen arrive at a back-country farm to make a hit. Their quarry is doing some chores. Without a word, they confront him, pull their weapons, shoot him twice in the heart, and go away. Around his still body his pet dog capers and moans. Over in the corral a horse paces desperately. And the screen door on the porch bangs open and closed in the wind. Cliches are not the exclusive province of dialogue...
...times, feed-lot operators buy 500-lb. to 700-lb. calves from ranchers, gorge them on a special, high-protein diet until the cattle reach the optimum slaughter weight of 1,100 lbs., then resell them to packers for about the same price per pound that they paid. They corral a profit if the expense of putting the added weight on the animals is less than the price that the added poundage brings...
...week went on, Ford began to recite some of the disclaimers that unannounced presidential candidates traditionally pronounce while simultaneously signaling their interest. He said that he had "no plans to go out and corral delegates and seek support...