Word: holstein
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...ring, big Holstein-Friesian bulls stomped and snorted while cows lowed mournfully in the stalls. Quito was having a cattle show and Ecuador's best of breed were on display. In the thick of the herd, a curly-haired farmer named Galo Plaza Lasso was qualifying entries, arguing with the judges, describing the show over a microphone. He had organized the exposition, and at the moment it interested him more than the fact that three days earlier he had been on top in Ecuador's presidential election...
...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
Back in Ecuador in 1933, he settled down, married a local society belle-and found the family fortunes in low estate. He proceeded to make the vast Plaza ranch north of Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian herds. In 1938 he became Defense Minister. Galo Plaza quelled one students' strike by ringing the university with troops, entering and dragging out the two ringleaders by the scruff of their necks, then persuading the rest to quit...
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...