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Expropriation in most cases is supposed to take as much as a year, but Castro jumped the gun because of his fury at the stubborn ranchers. The National Cattlemen's Association had criticized the reform as "confiscatory," planned a $500,000 advertising campaign against it. Castro called the cattlemen "counterrevolutionary," a capital offense in Castro's Cuba. His soldiers picked up and jailed Félix Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press...
...Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous...
...came upon the parked car and its occupant, slumped drowsily over the wheel. Police sniffed the afterglow, hauled the occupant in for a drunkometer test. Then, under a state law allowing such arrests even though the car may not be moving at the time, the cops booked angered, aroused Rancher Elliott Roosevelt, 48, of Scottsdale for drunken driving...
Last week Johnson formally severed his Southern connections by joining the Western regional conference of Democrats-enlarged by last November's Western Democratic victories to 23. Rancher Johnson found himself right at home backing water-resource bills rather than lost Dixie causes...
...made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal, a conservative, a Texan, a taxpayer, a rancher, a businessman, a consumer, a parent, a voter, and not as young [50] as I used to be nor as old as I expect to be-and I am all these things in no fixed order...