Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson summoned reporters to his splendid LBJ Ranch near Johnson City (named for his grandpa) to pass the word that he was throwing his pearl grey Stetson into the presidential ring as a favorite son candidate. Johnson, recovered from a sharp coronary attack, made it clear that his objective was not so much to win the presidential nomination as to take control of Texas' 56-man delegation away from Governor Allan Shivers, who distressed Johnson (and outraged House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn) by leading Texas into the Eisenhower camp...
...Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship...
...visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors coldly beside a lavender tree, and reluctantly asks them into his villa, a sort of ranch house with ailerons, where the robot synthesizes a snack and serves...
Gore pushed ahead with his plans while Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped to avoid an all-out gas-lobbying inquiry, was in Texas, resting up at his ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River.* Gore cleared his project with on-the-spot Democratic brass, e.g., Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements and Georgia's Senator Walter George, who had presided over the Case hearings. Then, without waiting for a by-your-leave from Johnson, Gore gave public notice of his plan to make his subcommittee the Senate's searching...
Whenever she could take time from helping to run the ranch, Ruth Chartres sharpened her climbing skill. Last month, at 60, she decided that she was ready. In 17 hours, with two guides, she reached the rugged peak with ease. Back in the lowlands again, Mrs. Chartres announced that she would go right on climbing whenever she could get away from her sheep...