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...lonesome widow runs a bookshop on a ranch in Arizona, one of the warmest bookshops on earth. Her name is Winifred Bundy, and her establishment is called the Singing Wind. You go north out of Benson on the Ocotillo Road, cross the train tracks and proceed 2 1/4 miles across a cattle guard to the shot-up mailbox -- SINGING WIND, it says, a careworn advertisement that is easy to miss -- where you hang a right on dirt, continue a quarter of a mile, open a gate, close it behind you and continue another quarter of a mile past horses, cows...
...Tucson for me, because it was dry, and I had asthma." When a job opened up in 1952, "we moved like a shot." In 1956 she earned a degree in history and English from the University of Arizona. That was also the year they bought the Singing Wind ranch, about an hour's drive out of Tucson. It is a section, or 640 acres, or a square mile, or not much land by local standards...
Humility is Wal-Mart's watchword, which filters down from Mr. Sam. The billionaire, whose family owns 38% of the company's stock, lives in Bentonville with his wife Helen in a modest brick-and-wood ranch-style house. Their names are on the mailbox, and it was only a few years ago that they installed a security system. All their children, three sons and a daughter, are grown. Walton typically rises before dawn and eats breakfast at the Ramada Inn coffee shop on his way to work. Along the way he may stop at Barber John Mayhall...
Lyndon Johnson was also a focus of sexual stories during his pre-White House years when he was Senate majority leader. There were many glimpses of him motoring to the Georgetown home of an attractive young woman, of his wanderings through his Texas ranch house to the bedrooms of guests. But, as usual, there were no eyewitnesses in the bedrooms...
...sexual appetite and apparatus, though he was such a storyteller that nobody was sure what to believe. The vision of that gargantuan figure rampaging through the sheets may have squelched more curiosity than it aroused. While President, Johnson was witnessed hectoring an attractive blond journalist, at dinner on his ranch, into staying the night. His language, even in front of his family members, was full of double meaning. The blond fled...