Word: ranched
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...Vassar and worked briefly for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In 1950 she married wealthy Texas Rancher Tobin Armstrong (who will probably accompany her to London) and became mistress of a 50,000-acre Southern Texas spread. Besides being mother of five children, Mrs. Armstrong helps keep the ranch books, works with the Santa Gertrudis cattle on occasion-"She can cut a herd with the best of them," says her husband. She is also an active sportswoman (tennis, swimming and hunting...
Died. William A. Blakley, 77, conservative Texas Democrat who twice filled an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate; in Dallas. Sometimes called "Cowboy Bill" for his early ranch-hand days in Oklahoma, later "Dollar Bill" in recognition of his status as a self-made centimillionaire who with his wife gave $100 million to a foundation that he helped to create, Blakley was first appointed to the Senate for eleven weeks in 1957. He left saying, "I shall go back to my boots and saddle and ride toward the Western sunset," but came galloping back in 1961 for another six months...
Even while she spent her childhood herding sheep on the family ranch in Australia's Outback, Jill Ker Conway "took deep pleasure in ideas and wanted learning more than anything else." Now Conway, 41, brings that zeal to her job as the first woman president of Smith College, the alma mater of such feminists as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem...
...movies, including Doomsday, starring Gary Cooper. When the talkies killed the silents, the adaptable Lee quickly met the challenge by turning out the grim, chilling Derelict and a cloak-and-sword drama, The Count of Monte Cristo, with equal dexterity. He retired in 1945 to his San Fernando Valley ranch but came back in 1959 to produce The Big Fisherman...
...environmental fronts. The rise in petroleum prices has increased the cost of fake furs, many of which are based on petrochemicals; the retail price of a full-length fake "mink," now about $300, has risen about 20% since 1972 (but of course still costs much less than the real ranch mink, which retails for about $5,000). Rising concern about industrial pollution has enabled many ecology-minded buyers to rationalize that the purchase of a fake fur made with chemicals produced in a pollution-prone plant may be a greater environmental sin than buying the real thing...