Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constitution Avenue is HQ of the AEC, headed by Gordon Dean, a 46-year-old lawyer (see box). No scientist, Dean was teaching law and running his 44-acre fruit ranch in California in 1949 when he was called to serve as a member of the commission under David Lilienthal, its first chairman...
Died. Tom Berry, 72, South Dakota's Democratic "cowboy governor" (1933-37); of a heart attack; in Rapid City, S. Dak. Berry went into the cattle business in his teens, built up a 30,000-acre ranch before going to the state legislature, which he called "The Follies of 1925" and regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails...
...Dealers claim. The feeling is widespread that anyone who wants to work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling (and the starting pay is better 'than ever). But youth's ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll...
Just One More Chance (Les Paul and Mary Ford; Capitol). An oldtimer, given the Paul-Ford "new sound" treatment (see above). On the second side, Paul's instrumental version of Jazz Me Blues seems to have enough guitars to outfit the King Ranch...
This week the magazine gave in to its own sales talk, and moved from a drab San Francisco office building to a new, $500,000 ranch-house building in suburban Menlo Park, with glass partitions, barbecue pits, foot-thick adobe walls, floors of Indian-made tile, beams, acres of gardens. The staff, who mostly moved with it, prepared to welcome 10,000 friends at an open house that included a barbecue in their plant's radiant-heated patio...