Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meet the Press, opposite the Army-Navy game; on Face the Nation opposite General de Gaulle's arrival at the White House; and on Issues and Answers opposite live coverage of Julie and David's surprise party for Ted Kennedy - at the ranch." But Nix on also promised him, he said, "that when he's ready to recognize Red China, he'll let me announce...
Everybody Calling. By contrast, Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft.½in. U.C.L.A. All America center, has already been offered a 40,000-acre ranch stocked with 3,500 head of cattle, if he will please, please play in the fledgling American Basketball Association; that's in addition to the $1,000,000 he is expected to receive when he joins the pros. During his career, Ben Hogan earned less than $300,000 on the links. This year Arnold Palmer Enterprises will meet a payroll of more than $1,000,000, covering his interests in such businesses as dry cleaning...
...cattle breeding and tourists to pursue his passion: personally blasting a larger-than-Rushmore likeness of Chief Crazy Horse out of a South Dakota mountain. A fortune from manufacturing has liberated Oklahoma's John Zink, a Hemingwayesque character who thrives in feudal splendor on a 10,000-acre ranch near Tulsa. Zink used to greet guests by firing a revolver into the beams of his baronial office, but stopped doing so when a ricochet almost hit his secretary. One night, when a Supreme Court Justice came to visit, Zink released a coon and a pack of hounds...
...though, it was pride and not pain that caused Mantle to quit. He was thinking about retiring last season but, shortly before spring training, while driving from downtown Dallas to his ranch home in the suburbs, he spied some kids playing ball. "I stopped and watched them for a few minutes," he recalls, "and suddenly this great desire to play came over me. I just had to go to Florida...
...easy. Last month, Brinkley finally took off for a week's vacation after what has probably been the most pulverizing year of newsbreaks (politics, assassinations, space shots) since he started reporting for his home-town Wilmington, N.C., Star-News in 1938. He booked himself into an Arizona dude ranch following a Tucson lecture. After only two days, he turned around disgustedly and flew home to New York: the weather was "lousy," and he couldn't stomach the group activities. Part of his difficulty, he adds, is that a career of deadlines (he also writes a 3½-minute...