Word: ranched
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Cerebral Clicks. A trainer for 39 of his 58 years, Whittingham was raised on a ranch in Otay, Calif., where as a boy he delivered newspapers on horseback. Serving variously as stable hand, exercise boy and horse trader, he came into prominence as a trainer in the mid-1950s, when one of his horses. Porterhouse, defeated the great Swaps, and another, Mr. Gus, upset Nashua...
Moving out to the Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, the shooting scene of several "Marlboro man" commercials, Manson turned his attention toward a number of curiously American symbols. He began to cultivate the friendship of Brian Wilson, one of the founders of that sun 'n surf, good-time-all-the-time-till-daddy-takes-the-t-bird away-'n-blondes-have-more-fun band, and pestered them to record his songs. The Beach Boys eventually did record one of Manson's songs, a death-rags originally entitled "Cease to Exist" which they changed to "Cease to Resist." And when Charlie...
...groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua and Costa Rica flock to the fair to buy prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction...
...perhaps even easy to drive from nearby Inglewood across Watts to South Gate or above on the Harbor Freeway without sensing that the community is one of the most depressed areas in urban America. Absent is even the sense that Watts is an urban community. The broad streets, and ranch-style tract houses lend it an illusion of suburbanity. Yet Watts is no less of a socio-economic urban prison than the older slums of the East Coast. It is merely a prison without walls...
...leading Texas law firms, Houston's Vinson, Elkins and Searls. Estimates of his earnings ran as high as $800,000 a year. He was already a wealthy man with an estimated worth of between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000. He owns the $300,000 Tortuga Ranch in Southwest Texas. On his 10,000-acre Floresville ranch, complete with two-story mansion, swimming pool and landing strip, he raises a couple of hundred head of cattle...