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...George Kane, 40, is a Perkins County, S. Dak., farmer-rancher who in 1952 became the first in his family to register as a Democrat. As Perkins County Democratic chairman for the past three years, Kane was more knowledgeable than most of the newcomers about how to get elected. Says Kane, "We may be a little green, but we know what we want and who we want, and it's George McGovern...
...confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer, and they laughed. In the eighth grade they asked the same question, and I said ballplayer and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade no one was laughing...
...fault of American Indians that eagles are more endangered than the buffalo today. It's the fault of people like the Wyoming rancher who slaughtered 50 eagles with the help of a hired gunman and a helicopter...
That paved the way for Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, 46, a feisty Corpus Christi lawyer and state legislator, to make her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Entering the race just three months before the primary, she finished a surprising second and will face Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 48, in a June 3 runoff. Unlike Briscoe, a conservative Democrat who has not been politically active since an unsuccessful try for Governor in 1968, Sissy has been on the ramparts. During her two terms in the legislature, she was known as "the den mother of the Dirty Thirty," a coalition of reform...
Chasing Animals. The so-called middlemen undoubtedly have pocketed their share too, and there are a lot of middlemen. In the case of beef, animals are sold by the rancher to a feedlot operator, who fattens stock for several months before selling it to a slaughterhouse. The carcasses are then sold to companies called breakers, which divide the meat into standard cuts and market it to stores...