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...remains to be seen, of course, how long the big guy can tell struggling Minnesotans to fend for themselves while he drives his Porsche out to the 32-acre horse ranch, the Governor's mansion or the lake cabin. But the truth is, it's going to be hard for him to screw things...
Eight years after the heart-bypass operation that saved his life, Floyd Stokes was in deep trouble again. His angina had returned with a vengeance. He was gulping nitroglycerine tablets and was virtually incapacitated, unable to do simple chores on his Seminole, Texas, ranch. Too far gone for another bypass, he had a choice, as he puts it, of "just waiting for death or trying to do something about...
Floyd Stokes, recovered, vigorous and hard at work on his Texas ranch last week, needs no convincing. "Dr. Isner and these fellows had to do some really far-out thinking to come up with this treatment," he says. "I owe my life to them...
...about Air Force One and the fleet of helicopters that served him. He had telephones installed all through the White House: on table legs, behind drapes, in secret desk drawers. He had a phone put on a l00-yd. cord so he could take calls while walking on his ranch. There were three buttons on the table near where he sat The labels read, FRESCA, ROOT BEER and COFFEE. They were linked to the White House mess for instant response...
...maybe a class-based aesthetic revulsion against hunting preceded Vietnam. Just after the election in 1960, Lyndon Johnson brought John Kennedy down to the L.B.J. ranch in Texas and, much to Kennedy's distaste, forced him to go out shooting deer. Urbanity recoiled at bloody, redneck crudeness. That's how the moment was interpreted at the time. Hunters belonged to the oaf class, Elmer Fudds who were dumb enough to be flimflammed by Bugs and Daffy: "Duck season! Wabbit season...