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...Andes to the Orinoco River. A group of Colombian cowboys rode up and invited the Indians to their ranch where two women cooks had prepared an alluring alfresco buffet of meat, rice, vegetables and fruit. Hardly had the Indians started eating when the cowboys' range boss, Luis Enrique Morín, gave a signal by rapping on the ranch house door. His men burst out, shooting with pistols, slashing with machetes and bashing with mallets. Sixteen Indians, including women and children, were killed. Two survived and crawled away. They later reported the massacre to a priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Indian-Hunters | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

That was in 1967. Last week six llaneros, or cowboys, and the two women cooks were belatedly tried in the frontier town of Villavicencio. They were charged with the mass murder of the Indians, which they chillingly admitted they had carried out as a lark. As Morín, now 33, put it: "For me, Indians are animals like deer or iguanas, except that deer don't damage our crops or kill our pigs. Since way back, Indian-hunting has been common practice in these parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Indian-Hunters | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...Crimson's radical, Swanson, Daniel Then jet the huzzab grow st For John H. Updike, a new Some hot new news for Mary A week as Deacon Dake's won best pick For Harvard football and Joe Restic Raise benediction and raise orison For Samuel E. and Theodore Mor(r)ision. Was sail in bowls and cups we'll carry To Stewart, Chalmers, Andrews, and Parry Pleasant hellos and pleasant looks For Liller, Smithies. Dunn, and Crooks In Mather House, we'll throw and party For Burriss Young and Skid von State Toast Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orloys Thomas Schelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down the Hatch and Down the Chimney | 12/16/1971 | See Source »

...Sides. Beckley's value was not limited to the Cosa Nostra; he also worked the legitimate side of the street. He had a deal with National Football League investigators to tip them about point spreads, possible fixes and tampering with games (TIME, Aug. 22). Mor? recently, he may have been tempted to cooperate with Government agents. Such a double life can be dangerous -even fatal. Last month, old No. 11 vanished. His lawyers have not heard from him, and he is "off the boards," or out of the play, in the betting world. Two weeks ago he forfeited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: No. 11 Off the Boards | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...them on, the Green Bay dogs had their day every Sunday. Under Lombardi's iron rule, they terrorized the National Football League for eight years. No more, for this year Mr. Lombardi, as he is known to his players, went to Washington to apply his whip to the mor-bund Redskins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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