Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Onoda, 54, the Japanese Imperial Army lieutenant who continued to wage World War II as a lonely guerrilla in the jungles of the Philippines until 1974; and Machie Onoki, 38, a tea ceremony instructress whom Onoda met in a Tokyo restaurant; in Sao Paulo, Brazil, not far from the ranch that Onoda now runs...
...virtues of Ronald Reagan is that every few days he says to hell with campaigning and goes back to his ranch to ride his horses and reminisce about his old movies. (His problems have to do with what he does when he is on the political job.) Hubert Humphrey, by many measures, is at his best when he is in Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay...
...Texas to help with his memoirs. She replied that she wanted to continue working with the poor in Cambridge, Mass. Never mind, said L.B.J.; he would find her bigger and better poor in Texas. She finally succumbed and spent much of the next four years at the Texas ranch...
Reagan reported that he and Wife Nancy own real estate worth $720,000, including a four-bedroom house in suburban Los Angeles, a 688-acre ranch outside Santa Barbara and 771 acres of undeveloped land in Riverside County, Calif. In valuing his real estate, Reagan found it convenient to use tax assessors' figures, which are well under current market values. For example, while Reagan valued his house at $213,000, he probably could sell it for more than $350,000. Similarly, Reagan set the value of the Riverside land at $417,500, but brokers said that more than...
Connolly's Barbecue. Ostensibly it will be just another Texas barbecue, but it smells like presidential politicking. The 50 Republican state chairmen have been invited to a working session at a San Antonio hotel on March 12, followed by a meeting next day at the ranch of John Connally-four days after the Florida primary, Texas Republican Chairman Ray Hutchison says he asked Connally to play host and insists that the group is meeting only to discuss the problems Republican candidates for Congress will face. But if Ronald Reagan does well against President Ford in New Hampshire and Florida...