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...Timely Roundup. The revolt fell so flat that some observers jumped to the conclusion that Perón himself had faked it all to whip up the vote for November's election. That was unlikely. More probably, the plot was genuine but had been allowed to develop with Perón's knowledge while countermeasures were prepared...
...third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...
Take all this as a roundup of a fairly, agreeable sports picture, toss in a world's champion (Dick Button) and a national junior champion (Dudley Richards) figure skater, then multiply the record of an amateur football team by a hundred, and it adds up to a decline in Harvard athletics. That's the formula today.The Cambridge crew beat the Crimson by 1 1/2 lengths on the Charles last April, but the Harvard varsity eight came back to lead a clean sweep over Yale at the end of June...
Except for eight whoppers who got away, the FBI had pretty well seined out all Commies of any size on the East Coast. Last week it shifted its operations, started hauling in California medium fry. In an early-morning roundup in Los Angeles and San Francisco, G-men arrested eleven of California's top Communist leaders, including such party faithfuls as Bernadette Doyle, 45, who polled 600,000 votes last year when she ran for state superintendent of public instruction (she wasn't identified as a Communist on the ballot, was presumed to have attracted many votes...
Even Texans are impressed at the size of the 800,000-acre Matador Ranch, second only to the King Ranch (950,000 acres) in the U.S. Matador is so big that a cowboy can ride 56 miles without leaving the main ranch; its roundup goes on all the year round. Matador had another distinction: it was not controlled by Texans, but by thrifty Scotsmen in Dundee...