Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tractor dealer, then joined the Calhoun bank in 1968. He rose to vice president in three years. But Campbell apparently found his $18,000 salary inadequate. Beginning in 1971, he began diverting bank funds to his own use, pumping the money mainly into a 460-acre Angus cattle ranch he bought near Calhoun. His main technique, curiously risky in such a small town, was to take out loans in the names of other people and even a local church He filed all the proper papers, then pocketed the proceeds. Even while embezzling Campbell ran up overdrafts as high...
...recordings went nowhere, stuck in Nashville's syrupy strings-and-choir arrangements. Though he was living well on sizable composing royalties, Nelson left Nashville in 1972 when his house burned down and he retreated to a ranch on the edge of Austin. Says he: "The University of Texas was there, and I had an idea that the young people was really goin' to like country music. They were havin' a rough time findin' it sometimes; they were afraid to go to some of the places where hippies might not be welcome...
...then help handle the processing and marketing. At the end of the day, he returns home to Wife Caron and six-month-old James Earl Carter IV. Trying "to work things out" in their strained marriage, the couple are living for the moment in Rosalynn and Jimmy's ranch house at 1 Woodland Drive. Though the quarters are not up to par with the White House, they top Chip and Caron's last abode in Plains: an $8,100 mobile home near the railroad station...
...years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even farther west on NBC-to Paradise Ranch, where a cantankerous family of cattle ranchers haggle over their island Ponderosa...
...various sizes in the U.S., Canada, and overseas. The yogi claims to have won some 250,000 followers, but a more realistic estimate would place the number of zealots at several thousand, although many more flock to his meetings. Bhajan's base is a well-groomed 40-acre ranch near Espanola, N. Mex., where his quarters are said to feature a domed bedroom and a sunken bath. Neighbors are nervous about 3HO's expensive land purchases in the area...