Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill and Laurie Nelson were among the quietest couples on Bethany Home Road, a well-tailored neighborhood just outside the city limits of Phoenix. Ariz. They owned their home, a rambling ranch house trimmed with apple-green cement blocks; they were surrounded by tasteful but not lavish trappings-Louis XIV-style furniture, a collection of miniature ivory elephants, a lantana-and-plumbago hedge planted and tended by Bill Nelson himself...
...built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives in a modern ranch-style house. Ray Gene Cinnamon, of Garber, Okla., Star Farmer in 1947, began as a sheepherder, now operates an 800-acre farm and owns a producing oil well. Today's F.F.A. leaders, building on the experience of their predecessors, have even greater opportunities...
...Paraguayan government, on Argentine urging, got ready to intern the ex-strongman on a ranch near orange-growing Villarrica, 90 miles from the Paraguayan-Argentine border. There Perón was to be confined to a small area and effectively silenced...
Died. General Manuel Avila Camacho, 58, President of Mexico (1940-46); of a heart attack; at his ranch near Mexico City. A brave but unflamboyant fighter in the flamboyant Mexican revolution, Avila Camacho climbed the ranks to Minister of National Defense under President (1934-40) Lázaro Cárdenas, who then helped Avila Camacho get elected. Wartime President Avila Camacho junked Cárdenas' leftism, lined his country up on the Allied side, relaxed the government's historic anticlericalism by his famed statement, "I am a believer...
...Backyard. Calcagno himself was born just one remove from Europe. The son of Italian immigrant parents, he grew up on a cattle ranch in California's Big Sur country, first tried his hand at watercolors in New Orleans while on a furlough from the U.S. Air Force. Says he: "I got a big kick out of taking things, shuffling them up, putting in yellow skies." The surprise came when a New Orleans gallery picked up his work, gave him a show. Thus encouraged, Calcagno took a leisurely painting tour of Mexico after World War II, then showed...