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...Delfino's cowboy boots are old and scuffed. His Stetson is sweat stained, and his jeans are dirty from the hard labor of running his family's $10 million cattle, farming and packing business in California. He is a taciturn, hard-bitten cowpoke, but he has the U.S. livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more...
...Delfino agreed. "The growers are right. In five years, I do not think that there will be a sheep industry in the U.S. With rising land values and labor costs, it is pretty tough for a rancher to raise a sheep and make much over $1.50 on it." Delfino, on the other hand, can buy Australian sheep for $5.50 or less each, net $3 per head minimum when he sells them...
Heartening Victory. Despite the Red outcries and the government silence, the U.S. policy seems to be catching on. Last week there was a significant labor election at the vast Bombrini Paroei-Delfino ammunition works in Colleferro. south of Rome. Management feared Communist gains because 800 men had just been laid off. The Colleferro plant is Italy's biggest ammunition supplier; about 18% of its business is in offshore orders. In last week's election, the Communist vote (once a fungoid 68% ) dropped from 30% to 23.8%. At the same time, the vote for the rival non-Communist federation...
...varsity golf team defeated Boston University yesterday at B.U., 4 to 3. Crimson Captain Doug Wilde beat Gene Delfino 8 and 7, and shot a very low 32 going out. Dusty Burke (H) lost to Larry Sullivan 2 up and 1 to go, Dave Heberg (H) lost to Jay Wolfe 6 and 4, and Dave Groman (H) lost to Lon Rumplen 4 and 3. Paul Weissman, Mitch Rosenholtz, and Bill Timpson won for the varsity...
Last week the John Hay Whitney Foundation announced the award of their first 42 fellowships (averaging $2,024 each). Among the winners: Milton Bee Wise, 20, a Kentucky mountaineer who will study animal husbandry at North Carolina State, take his knowledge back to fellow farmers at home; Delfino Varela, 23, a Spanish-American who wants to study community rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take...