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November, 1973

For want of anything better to do, the good citizens of Victoria, Texas, recently held their Third First Annual International Armadillo Confab and Exposition--three days of improbable contests, dedicated beer drinking and unstructured hell raising. It was truly a Texas bash: more than 40,000 people, old and young, cowboys and long-hairs, local families and out-of-town college students, harmoniously guzzling 300 kegs of "1973 beer at 1953 prices"--25 cents a 12-ounce cup--and carousing...