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Mechanized Corrida Over the centuries, a system has been developed in Spain for getting bulls who will not fight out of the bull ring. Usually, a few steers driven into the arena will herd the reluctant bull to the exit. Sometimes, men were sent in with long clubs to break the bull's legs so that he could be hauled out by mules. Or the peones, or the matador himself, would lure the bull up to the inner fence where an accomplice could jab a dagger into the base of his skull. In Madrid, as a last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Mechanized Corrida | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...fall and spring are devoted to outdoor work. The school could not run if the students did not do this work--the entire outdoor paid staff consists of seven men--which consists of the maintenance of the entire school, including the running of a large farm with a herd of about eighty head...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Putney: Search for the Complete Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...Kansas City's Hotel Muehlebach, a herd of 756 Brangus cattle and 1,240 acres of good Missouri farm land owned by the late professional Gladhander Dale (How to Win Friends and Influence People) Carnegie were auctioned off on orders of his widow Dorothy, brought in some $319,000 to the estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Bronx brick pile is the embodiment of a theory, much argued by educators, that, like the slow-witted and the physically handicapped, bright students should be cut from the herd and schooled separately. It is one of four public high schools in New York City* permitted to accept or reject potential students on the basis of academic ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Training for Brains | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

SHALL YOUNG MEN COMING TO HARVARD BE ENCOURAGED TO HERD THEMSELVES ACCORDING TO CHILDHOOD COMMITMENTS AND HAVE THEIR SECTARIAN PREFERENCES (AND PREJUDICES) DEEPENED BY ASSOCIATION WITH "THEIR OWN KIND" OR BE ENCOURAGED TO EXPLORE FREELY WHAT THE BROADER BROTHER-HOOD MOVEMENT HAS TO OFFER? So far as their religious life (in college and later) is concerned, it makes little difference whether their sectarian points of view are reenforced in Memorial Church or elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT BROTHERHOOD? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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