Word: patricio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another plane. Once in the air again, Captain Medina decided he had had enough. Catching the hijackers off guard, he and his copilot wrestled the pistol away from them and locked them in the toilets. Then Medina flew back to Santiago, where police arrested Pedro Varas Flores, 16, and Patricio Dagach Reic, 15, on a charge of armed assault...
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...smaller portrait, 30 in. by 36 in., based on the President's favorite photograph. The picture was taking shape when, to Hurd's dismay, he discovered that "that photograph was in every little bureaucrat's office in America-including the post office in San Patricio. I couldn't plainly copy such a picture. I lost interest." However, he finished the large portrait and shipped it off to Washington. Several months later he got a letter from the White House Historical Association informing him that the portrait would not be the President's official one-because...
Closest of all to this week's cover subject is Painter Peter Hurd, who lives and works on his 2,200-acre ranch. The Sentinel, near San Patricio in southern New Mexico. There he raises Brangus cattle and Thoroughbred horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings...
...Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...