Word: rancher
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...enterprise. Estimates of how much money was pumped into the Frente for recruiting centers and other political expenses vary from $130,000 monthly to a high of $520,000 last December. As the plans for a frontal invasion took shape, CIA men went to Guatemala and arranged with Rancher-Businessman Roberto Alejos* to use three of his properties-coffee plantations named Helvetia and La Suiza near the town of Retalhuleu, and a cotton farm called San José Buenavista, 35 miles from the Pacific port of San José-as camps to train an army of invasion ("No charge." said...
...Maury Maverick Jr., 40, son of the late rip-roaring New Deal Congressman, grandson of the rancher who let his cattle run unbranded (and thus made his name a world-known synonym for "stray"), has the support of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which means that he will probably get the maverick vote and little else. Warns Maverick: "If I don't get a lot of votes, we may not have another man willing to run this liberal in Texas for another ten years...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May, apostolic descendant of Mrs. Stotesbury, presided at the Red Cross benefit dance, doing her best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...
...move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...
Married. Lana Turner, 39, who foreshadowed 3-D as the screen's original Sweater Girl; and California Rancher Fred May, 43; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...