Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks before John Connally was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury last February, he threw a big wingding at his ranch in Floresville, Texas. Under a striped tent the guests dined on succulent barbecued ribs and homemade ice cream. Their host, glowing and happy, exclaimed: "You know, this is a damn good life...
...Volcker and Speechwriter Bill Safire sneaked across Washington to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where they boarded a helicopter for Camp David. John Connally, who had no way of knowing that the pressure on the dollar would propel him into prominence so soon, had just gone to his Texas ranch for a vacation. He jetted hastily back, and when the first meeting began Friday afternoon, he sat at Nixon's right...
...director, Brigadier General George Lincoln, was on his ranch near Denver when he got the White House call to action. He phoned his eight regional directors and sent them scurrying. "Get a bunch of borrowed people," he advised. "We don't want to pay them." The morning after the President's announcement, Lincoln's men set up improvised regional offices in ten major cities. In the Midwest, the branch moved from Battle Creek, Mich., to Chicago. In Georgia, OEP-ers transferred from Thomasville to Atlanta, where they found room in an insurance office sandwiched between two topless...
...have a farm or ranch editor? Your Environment article on mustangs is about as realistic as an Italian western...
...horses, not only forbidding owners to ship them out of the state but prohibiting intercounty movement as well. The order, which grounded a unit of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Dallas, may keep the deadly equine epidemic confined to Texas though horses from the famed King Ranch were shipped to Kentucky prior to the quarantine and may be carrying the disease. The quarantine will do little to prevent those animals already exposed from becoming food for the buzzards. Thousands of the state's 400,000 horses are expected to die of VEE before the coming...