Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest (12,349 ft.). Called Aorangi (Cloud Piercer) by the Maoris, Cook is a tough enough test for a professional mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Everest, practiced there; many lost their lives in the attempt...
...caprice: Jackie Cochran has long had a hankering to go to Congress, and, unlike many of the big landowners in the Imperial Valley (40% of the land is held by absentee owners), she has spent a great deal of the past 20 years personally operating the 600-acre Odium ranch, and is well known in the district...
Died. Roger Steffan, 62, longtime (1929-53) vice president of the National City Bank of New York, aide to Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams as White House business manager in 1953, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission to Nationalist China on Formosa in 1954; of a heart attack; at his ranch in Vista, Calif...
...last week applied for a visa to go to Mexico where, according to his Mexican friend Lawyer Hector Ponce Sanchez, he was considering investing "part of his savings" in a Chihuahua cattle ranch...
...money flows as generously as the joy-juice in their wineskins, found Dominguin easily worth his fancy fee in the opening fight. His most brilliant kill was his second. He seated himself on the ringside barrier, perilously immobile, while the big bull from Mexico's famed San Mateo ranch charged three times. His gold-and-pink "suit of lights" flashing, Dominguin followed up with a series of classic passes in mid-ring and killed the bull with a single, perfect thrust, winning both ears and the tail. By the time the killer of more than 2,000 bulls...