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Next day Almazanistas ambushed five Federal agents investigating the plot, killed two of them. The Government countered by starting a roundup of Almazanista leaders, jailed 100 within 48 hours...
Roper still considers the quadrennial roundup of U. S. citizens at the polls chiefly as a check on the accuracy of his surveys-a means of calibrating for errors in his sampling method. He pays close attention to the phrasing of questions in his interviews, in order to get the real beliefs of inarticulate or evasive citizens...
...outsiders too, Huntsville's Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even...
Only big-time professional among the 200 contestants last week was 25-year-old Frank Ellis, serving three years for a little shooting scrape. He had ridden broncs at Cheyenne, Pendleton and the great Broadway roundup in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
Most exciting event of the prison roundup is the Mad Scramble, a free-for-all barred from most rodeos as too dangerous. In this race, riders mounted on wild bulls, cows and broncs (some saddled, some bareback) are let loose simultaneously, bucking and bumping into one another in their crazy dash to the finish line. Winner last week was Ernest Myers, a Beaumont robber...