Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Aviation Cadets: Single men, 20 to 26 1/2, with two years of college qualify. Training for 13 months in the Southwest and active duty for three years after...
...made by about two battalions. We had perhaps 200 police and 400 R.O.K. troops and decided we were too thin to hold, as we could see them streaming down the mountains to the north. We formed a vehicle column and headed southwest. Our advance patrol encountered two enemy groups but blasted them out with artillery. When we were about ten miles out, we heard firing far ahead, and assumed-and still assume- that it was the 31st coming...
...Dallas, Baylor over Southern Methodist, 3-0, with a fourth-quarter field goal, to put the foot back in football for the pass-happy Southwest Conference and to hand S.M.U., voted the top team in the country a month ago, its third loss in four games...
...symphony orchestra, civic theater and a dozen other cultural organizations for them to enjoy, or just to give the News's Amusements Editor John Rosenfield something to write about. The fact is that culture in Dallas has blossomed like a rose on the dry plains of the Southwest, thanks largely to Rosenfield. A secondary result is that his column and reviews are among the best-read of News features...
Last week, he held an auction at his Headquarters Ranch near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price...