Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parker). Actor MacArthur, who is built like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian no stink, white man stink...
...Vengeance is mine . . . saith the Lord") is almost cruelly pressed home. But most of what leads up to the point seems tedious digression, and Cowboy Peck gives the impression that he felt more comfortable in that grey flannel suit (TIME, April 23, 1956) than in ranch pants...
...knew better than Jack Westrope the dangers of his profession. His older brother was also a jockey, and he was killed in a spill at Tijuana in 1932. Last week Jack went out to ride the King Ranch's Well Away at Hollywood Park with his old, slashing style. A quarter-mile from the wire the filly began to lug in. Westrope stood up in the stirrups and walloped her on the head to keep her from bolting off the track. Nothing worked. His mount threw him onto the rail, and he died of multiple fractures and internal injuries...
...Nevada politician, TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch flew into Reno, got the onetime auto tycoon's consent to a half-hour interview. But the meeting continued 5½ hours because Cord, now an Esmeralda County rancher, discovered that McCulloch had been raised on a ranch in Nevada's Lyon County. For what Returning Native McCulloch learned, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The New-Model Cord...
...Mackle houses are hard to beat for the price. At Port Charlotte, the company sells ten different models of pastel-colored, concrete-block ranch-type houses from $6,960 (one bedroom, living room, kitchen and screened porch) to $16,260 (three bedrooms, living-dining area, two baths, garage, terrazzo floors, tile roof). The Mackles try to avoid the project look that afflicts many mass building areas by laying out streets in winding arcs, alternating models, setting houses at different angles, and surrounding them with fast-growing trees and shrubbery...