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Sure enough, L.B.J. jetted off secretly to Viet Nam and a conference with his field commanders. While in flight he changed his gray suit to a rancher's outfit of twill so that he would look more like a soldier when he reviewed the troops at Cam Ranh Bay. When the Commander in Chief left the plane he was a harmony in brown...
...would abruptly stamp his feet on the White House drive, look glumly at the gray Washington skies and fly off to his Texas ranch, declaring "I've got to see the stars again." Down there he would walk beside his small river, the Pedernales, and explain, "To a rancher, running water is the prettiest sound God ever made...
...rancher's son, Barragán spent much of his youth riding horses, attending fiestas and visiting marketplaces. He planned to be a rancher himself, but his mother insisted that he have a profession. He chose civil engineering but developed an interest in architecture while taking his degree at the University of Guadalajara. Before settling down to work, he spent two years in Europe, where he was charmed by "the architecture of the poor"?by Greek villages, which he had visited, by Moorish souks, which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love...
When Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited Houston last year, Rancher John Joyce gave him a Texas-size souvenir: a 1,000-lb. champion brahma bull worth $10,000. Joyce also handed Deng a letter offering to sell more bulls, if China was shopping...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...