Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago last August, a slight, 18-year-old California ranch hand named Billy Rupp committed an appallingly brutal murder. He cornered a 15-year-old baby sitter named Ruby Ann Payne in the television room of his boss's Orange County home, slugged her with a hammer and then shot her twice with a .22 rifle. He was found cutting the dying girl's clothes off with a pair of scissors. He fled, was captured, tried, found sane, and sentenced to die this month in the gas chamber at San Quentin Penitentiary...
...then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows, and storage walls. ¶ Pictures of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which Wright built between 1916 and 1922. Flexibly constructed on a broad, floating base of stone, the hotel...
Four hours after landing in New Orleans, President Eisenhower turned his eyes to Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched...
...only a handful of such schools for brain-injured children. There should be hundreds, says Dr. Putnam. As a next step, he and Hood are laying plans for a $1,000,000 ranch school for more children whose parents do not know where to turn for help...
...narrow the wide spread between ranch and retail prices is to improve the steer so that there will be more meat, less waste, less expense in raising it. Some experts also believe that even the traditional feed-lot method of fattening cattle with expensive corn can be greatly improved. One development in feeding is the use of synthetic urea to nourish the bacteria in the rumen (part of a steer's stomach) so that a steer can be readied for market on cotton burrs, corncobs and even sawdust in its food...