Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a small circus destined for the Old West town of Yellow Back Radio. When the circus gets there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...
Born in Colorado and raised in New Mexico. Stauder grew up as the son of a rancher. At high school he participated in the drama and the speech clubs. Stander was editor of the school newspaper and in his junior year, he represented his class on a rinky-dink Student Council. Good marks and extra-curricular activities landed him in Harvard despite the disadvantage of coming from a public high school in the Southwest, and having no family history at the College...
...hear his friends tell it, Lyndon Johnson has turned into just another hill-country rancher. He helps lay irrigation pipe, frets about his cattle and the weather, works on his memoirs and papers, entertains a few close friends, watches an occasional movie in a converted hangar at the ranch (he invariably falls asleep). Sundays, he usually goes to one of the churches around Johnson City-Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran, it hardly seems to matter, as though he were facing God as an equal and the intermediaries were supernumerary. He is fit and tanned, relaxed and happy...
Lost Winners. Tony Burkel, a 41-year-old turkey rancher from Greenbush, Minn., and a professional driver for the U.S.'s Polaris Industries Inc., which makes the Polaris snowmobile, was among the first drivers to arrive in Fairbanks, but he got lost in the dense ice fog. Officials at the finish line, who could hear his machine growling aimlessly around the side streets, finally sent out a runner to try to guide him home with a flare. Another contestant gone astray startled onlookers by barreling across the finish line from the opposite direction...
...grass-tufted upcountry savannas of southern Guyana yield profits only to the rawest, roughest kind of rancher, but Ben Hart was that sort of man. Immigrating from South Dakota in the early 1900s, he married a half-breed of Amerindian-Scotch parentage and fathered six boys as tough as he. They tended their herds, sleeping in tree platforms at night to fend off attacks by pumas, and they carried water in buckets for the shade trees they planted. Before Hart died in 1961, they put together a spread of 185,000 leased acres, with buildings and ranch houses worth...