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...campesino's resistance to the anti-aftosa cattle slaughter had been tragically bitter. A veterinarian and his seven-man soldier escort had been murdered in Senguio; bands of armed men, threatening violence to cattle-shooters, roamed the states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas. Only last week, sanitation workers who had come to disinfect a village in the state of Querètaro were driven out with cries of: "You've killed our cattle, now you can't kill our children...
Publisher Cima went ahead anyhow, is trusting to God's providence for money to see the series through. Scholar Schopp heads a seven-man editorial board which plans to bring out at least one volume a month for the next five or six years...
...multiple-college cross country meets, there is generally one team afraid of finishing last. The seven-man Crimson squad which will take off this morning from Logan Airport for the Nanagonals at Princeton finds itself in this category...
...spread-eagling the field of 36, Black negotiated the distance in 21 minutes, 18 8-10 seconds. He was followed by the rest of the Rhode Island team, a seven-man block broken only by Ted Woods, of B.U., who came up fast over the last half mile to finish fourth...
...seven-man board of owner-contributors (including Clifton Fadiman and John Hersey) had taken over to make sure that the infant '47 survived to become '48, when it would take ads. "People have been fired, ideas and departments shelved," they reported. "Any day now you will receive a '47 which we send out (for the first time) with confidence and some pride...