Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home on the Ranch. The leader in that new industry goes by the name of Kampgrounds of America, Inc. or KOA. It has opened 384 campgrounds so far, and earned $375,000 last year on revenues of $3,500,000. Since the company went public a year ago, its stock has split three for two; adjusted for the split, it has risen from $8.33 to $17.50 despite a bear market. The company has even sprouted a subsidiary: Ranch Kampgrounds of America, which has five operating, holiday camps,, one of them on a 75,000-acre cattle ranch at Chugwater...
...LAST time I went to New York City, I became a communist. That was five years ago when Rocky, Ron and I- fresh from our Southern California ranch homes- decided to interrupt our first trip to Harvard with five days of skyscrapers, fashions, and museums. Those were the days before youth fare, so we travelled by train- three days of sleeping in our chairs by day and trying to sleep in them by night. As we got off the train in Grand Central Station, our arms were still tired from doing push-ups for exercise in the standing room between...
...haste) about 13.5 million gallons of potent chemicals from low-flying planes (see color pages). The peak of the program came in 1967-68, when 400 defoliation sorties were flown monthly. Now considerably reduced to a "classified" number of missions, the program continues under the ironic code name "Operation Ranch Hand." To date, the herbicides have affected an estimated five million acres, including 500,000 acres of rice and other crops...
Unhappily, Operation Ranch Hand also undermines the allies' efforts to win the minds of the Vietnamese. "The Viet Cong have made tremendous capital out of defoliation," says Jean-Paul Poliniere, agronomist with Viet Nam's Technical Service Institute. "They've told the peasants, The Americans want to take all your food away so you will be dependent on them for all time.' Sometimes the peasants believe them...
...with the hard blue eyes of a riverboat gambler. He has a strong _ fondness for the trappings of success: custom-built limousines with fur upholstery, nine airplanes, 3,000 pairs of cuff links (many of them solid gold) and homes in Denver, Hawaii, Palm Springs and Manhattan. His ranch outside Granby, Colo., encompasses 400 acres, has guesthouses that accommodate 120 people, a shooting gallery and a beauty parlor. What else could a man wish for? King wants to be a billionaire within ten years...