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Perro Caliente (Hot Dog), near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric...
...name of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force). For the moment, they were the only other permanently registered legal political party besides the government's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). Other opposition parties-the conservative Acción Nacional, Lombardo Toledano's Partido Popular, and the Communists-were trying to corral enough signatures to qualify for the June 30 permanent registration deadline...
...into key houses and organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played in the Stadium...
...Last June, 40 sheep and I had a memorable trip en route to Taiyuan in a transport plane. Twice I helped the co-pilot herd the sheep out of the plane's tail after they had jumped the rear fence of their bamboo corral and made the plane tail-heavy. When I told the pilot what had happened, he mused: 'I wondered why this damned airplane was dragging...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Paris Symphony, Copland's Corral Nocturne and Hoe Down, Dohnányi's Suite in F-sharp Minor. Conductor: Milton Katims (see Music...