Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells visitors. To avoid the bother of reading...
...Medical Association gathered in Dallas last week, selected as "Family Doctor of the Year" Dr. Chesley M. Martin, 70, native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
...concert career, but was allowed to play occasionally with her brother in teen-age recitals that astounded critics with their power and perception. When she was 18 she married Lindsay Nicholas, brother of Yehudi's wife Nola, and retired with him to a 24,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia. Hephzibah returned briefly to the U.S. and European concert circuit in 1947, carefully scheduling her tour, she explained, so that she would be back in Australia "in time for the lambing season...
...read with interest your Sept. 21 article regarding Postman Frank Derrick, who, with a salary of $4,000 a year, is able to afford a "brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, and an air conditioner, and a piano." How does...
...guided visit to the Eisenhower farm, dinner with Ike at the White House correspondents' dinner celebrating Eisenhower's 69th birthday. From Washington, López Mateos planned to go to Chicago, New York, the Canadian capital of Ottawa and then to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch on his way home...