Word: herding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...games clean. Says one: "The inmates control the gambling. They watch out and keep the trouble down, because they don't want to lose this privilege. Listen, most of these guys know all about cheating; they could outcheat anybody. So there isn't any. They ride herd on it." Adds he: "This is probably the most honest gambling casino there is anywhere...
...Gunman. Cruising the Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh...
...reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout and leaseman, left the oilfields to return to his first love, cattle raising. His herd died of tick fever, putting him $6,000 in debt to the Athens bank. After another hitch in the oilfields, Richardson returned to Athens a year later in a brand new Cadillac, "swung around the square so's all the bench warmers would see me good," and then went...
...installed two-lane bowling alley, watched a Navy yeoman put together five strikes and a spare, and autographed his score card of 218. In mid-conference that afternoon, Eisenhower and Khrushchev took off together in a helicopter for Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Khrushchev inspected Eisenhower's prize herd of Black Angus cattle, dropped by the main farmhouse to greet...
...Francisco was only a rehearsal. The big show came in Coon Rapids, Iowa, where Millionaire Farmer Roswell Garst, who enjoys the glare of publicity, had invited the full herd of newsmen down to the farm. Apparently confident that he was dealing with orderly men, Farmer Garst issued eight pages of agricultural information to the press (sample: "When corn is down to 30% moisture, it has reached maximum dry weight") that was totally silent on the subject of reportorial conduct. The moment they set foot on Garst property, the newsmen turned it into a battleground...