Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr.. 67, part-owner of the 950,000-acre King Ranch of Texas, the country's largest cattle ranch; of a heart attack while vacationing in Hot Springs, Ark. Kleberg studied law, served seven terms in Congress, constantly pushed research on cattle and feeds, once said: "The fate of the world depends upon God and grass...
...BREAKING WAVE, by Nevil Shute (282 pp.; Morrow; $3.50). Why did Jessie Proctor take a bottlefull of sleeping pills? The suicide of his parents' maid is a mystery that challenges Alan Duncan, just returned from Europe to manage the family's huge sheep ranch near Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to the dead girl's diary, Duncan's sleuthing takes him less than 24 hours, but an almost continuous flashback takes him over years of personal history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie...
...Kirk Douglas, a new hand on the Triangle spread, is plumb dumfounded. "Wah," he gasps, "it hain't har'ly deesint." A little later he says to his pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman...
...Post." Today, both Dale and Roy are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which they joined when they moved to a ranch outside Hollywood. They say grace at meals, and at night they pray around a family altar (made of one of Dale's old dressing tables). Sometimes Dale squeezes in her morning prayers while driving to work in her Dodge. "Then I read my Bible while I'm having my hair done...
Into the Night Wind. Ranch Foreman Locy first became Preacher Locy at the Holy Land Bible Knowledge Society in Los Angeles. Then he spent 30 years barnstorming the U.S. and Canada-the last 19 of them in a trailer-teaching the Bible with the help of pictures. When Clinton and his wife Georgia settled down a couple of years ago in West Richland, Wash. (pop. 1,000), they set about starting a Visual Bible Training Center...