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Word: santocchi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the number of loose burros topped 300, Mayor Adolfo Santocchi decided to act. One day last week his men rounded up 20 burros, loaded them on a truck and drove away. Twelve miles out from town the burros were set down in a green valley, sheltered by hills and watered by a cool stream. In an address to the town by soundtruck, Mayor Santocchi explained that he had sought out the valley as a refuge-suitably distant-"where our plateritos can live happily and in peace." As his men began rounding up the rest of the strays, the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Promised Land | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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