Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years in office the still-formidable Governor decided to step down at year's end to rest and-some suspect-to mount a campaign against Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright in 1968. Last week's gubernatorial primaries gave the G.O.P. its most propitious omen yet. While Rancher Rockefeller easily captured his party's nomination, the Democrats showed themselves deeply divided when it came to choosing a successor to Faubus...
Died. Wellington Rankin, 81, Montana lawyer-rancher and younger brother of Jeanette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (1917-19), who amassed one of the nation's biggest landholdings (900,000 acres of ranchland); following abdominal surgery; at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn...
...west. Brown trout leap to the hook in the Little Laramie River, just outside classrooms in a rustic old building on the V-Bar Ranch. The 39 students live in a log bunkhouse that once served as a station on the stagecoach line. Supported by funds from Rancher Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, the school pays each student $15 a week, charges no tuition or board...
...pinch of chewing tobacco, proudly wears Duncan tartan ties. He often reminds himself of appointments by jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee to the Federal Power Commission, seemed drab by comparison...
...safely to Texas Cattle Baron Brian Keith, who gives the film's liveliest performance as an unsanitary Scottish laird, up to his red beard in the debris of a crumbling ranch fortress that looks like condemned property. Maureen starts tidying up the place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs. All the livestock soon plods away discreetly into the snow. Back at the ranch, the people play...