Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come Back." The toll in southwest Missouri's beef and dairy country is sickening. Millions of acres of pasture are dead right down to the roots, thousands of trees are dying, stock ponds are muddy hollows, trucks are hauling water to farms in almost every conceivable kind of container. Thousands of farmers, running out of grain and hay, are dumping part or all of their cattle on the market at sacrifice prices. For the past two months, the stockyards in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield have been jammed to the gates with calves that should have been kept...
...well-adjusted Artie came out of his retirement last spring for a brief but money-making tour through the Southwest, and "found myself liking to play again." He liked it so much, in fact, that he is already scheming the way he did in his youth, this time to tour colleges in a double bill with the Gramercy Five and a classical string quartet. "I found I could keep up with what the kids were doing," he says. "Hell, I wasn't sure, you know. Lots of us, as we grow older, find...
...wild Chiri ("Different Wisdom") mountains of southwest Korea, Red guerrilla bands still maraud and plunder, sweeping down from their lairs to ransack villages and loot the creaky buses that bounce along the region's rutted roads. There are at least 3,000 guerrillas, and the villagers on whom they prey call them San Sonnim ("Mountain Guests"). Until last week many of them were devoted henchmen of Lee-Hyun Sang, a plump, mustached Marxist...
...beautiful lady announcer, whose dulcet commercials had earned more than 1,000 offers of marriage for herself and many more advertisers' pesetas for her employers, it kept both working at top speed, entertaining and selling not only its own people but a goodly section of southwest France as well...
...Angeles, Aussie Tennis Star Ken Rosewall reversed Forest Hills, beat U.S. Champion Tony Trabert in the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tournament, went on to win the title by defeating Vic Seixas in the finals...