Word: vaquero
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...said, "I can't count on the army." With that, he retired to Campo de Mayo, the sprawling barracks of the First Army Corps on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. There he remained until the head of the army's general staff, José Antonio Vaquero, brought word that Galtieri's "voluntary resignation" had been accepted...
...first death occurred on May 1, when Jaime Vaquero Garcia, 8, died in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid. His five brothers and sisters also suffered from signs and symptoms that were soon to become all too familiar-severe muscular pain, fever, skin rashes and impaired nerve function-but all of them survived...
...West he knew. Albert Bierstadt portrayed the Rockies; George Caleb Bingham the riverboatmen he first knew as a boy on the Missouri. To William Jacob Hays, the buffalo was already a hulking ghost in the dawn of a new day, while James Walker captured another vanishing species, the Spanish vaquero...
...Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, 31, son of an established Madrid landscapist, is a bold muralist whose works form walls in churches, hospitals and universities across Spain, even an 8,611-sq.-ft. bulwark in an electrical plant in Grandas de Salime. His murals are close to "official" art, full of public consciousness, but when he won first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture...
...opened an entirely different sort of campaign. William Fife Knowland came not to be liked but to demand respect. Outside San Diego's Russ Auditorium, big, dead-serious Bill Knowland seemed incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker's platform. Once he got there, Knowland wasted little time on howdy-dos, plowed straight away into his speech...