Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family friend, he drove out into the Rockies to South Platte River. On his third cast, Ike hooked a ten-inch rainbow trout, and by noontime he and Nielsen had pulled in a dozen. At that point Ike took complete command of the party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where he built a fire and set the bacon frying in a skillet. While it fried, he put cornmeal, salt & pepper...
Last week, while Sloan was vacationing in Spain at the ranch of wealthy Banker Pedro Gandarias, O'Dwyer said in Mexico City that as a Catholic he could not recognize the civil action. Sloan said that she had hoped a church annulment would come through simultaneously with a civil divorce; she indicated that she had no intention of putting herself in a state of mortal sin by remarrying without one. On the advice of church authorities, she is planning to return to Mexico to be interrogated by an ecclesiastical council...
Little & Big Oaks. The camp was set up seven years ago and named for the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who had felt all his life that Jews can become better Americans by becoming better Jews. Originally a cattle ranch and hunting lodge, its barns and outbuildings were converted into studios, social centers and meeting halls. The institute tries, in the words of Director Dr. Shlomo Bardin, 54, "to open up for our people a heritage that is thousands of years old-by prayer, by music, by drama, by art-by living life in [terms...
...that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...
Just a Transition. They have built benches, desks, bunks and tables, have lined the ranch-house walls with book cases, installed cupboards, coat racks and window screens. They have cut and hauled several cords of wood, started clearing a ski trail, piled, loaded and sold 4,000 bales of hay to help fill up the school's near-empty coffers. Meanwhile, they have also done their housework-cooking, cleaning and making beds...