Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips). He has a 25-room house just outside Dallas and a 3,300-acre ranch 65 miles away. When he wants to get farther away from the world, he flies to his 75,000-acre Acuňa Ranch in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. It is comfortably furnished but it has no phone, is on no road, and can be reached only...
...Texas oilmen, Clint Murchison has also wet his feet in politics. An early Eisenhower supporter, he financed a pro-Ike campaign paper in Texas with Richardson. He has also been a vocal and financial supporter (for about $40,000) of Senator McCarthy, and has entertained him at his Mexican ranch. Murchison once said: "I like Joe McCarthy. He's done the greatest possible service to his country." Recently, he has cooled somewhat: "I was for him and still am, but with more reservations...
...handsome, erect woman ("My grandmother always told me: 'Stand tall and spurn the earth' ") with a weather-tanned face, Mrs. Bowring flew back to the ranch after the announcement "to kiss the cattle goodbye." Said she, with a characteristic twinkle: "They're about the only ones interested in kissing me any more." For her introduction to Washington, she adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ... ride the fence awhile . . . until I find where the gates...
After operations and heavy X-ray treatments for cancer of the thyroid, Mrs. Leota Rogers, 21, seemed to be getting along well at a ranch near Moses Lake in central Washington. She was riding her own horses and helping around the house. But a fortnight ago, as she finished an afternoon snack, the carotid artery in the right side of her neck burst where it had been weakened by the cancer and treatment. Blood spurted halfway across the room. Mrs. Rogers took the first step toward saving her life by plugging the pencil-size hole with her finger...
...ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole blood, telephoned Yakima for more blood, and arranged for an ambulance trip to Spokane. Relays of state troopers rushed the blood 110 miles from Yakima; then Dr. Fairbanks bundled his patient up for the equally long drive to Spokane. He kept his thumb on the artery...