Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invention of snowmaking machines has brought skiing even to such stately summering places as Virginia's Homestead hotel. At Cataloochee Ranch in North Carolina, man-made snow brings skiers from as far away as St. Petersburg...
When Henry Fonda's children were children, they lived on Tigertail Road in Brentwood, Calif., on something that young Jane Fonda now describes as a farm. This is like claiming to have been brought up on a ranch on Park Avenue. But as Jane remembers it. Pa Fonda used to stomp around the property in sideburns or a beard, achinnin' with the other farmers-John Ford, Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and so on. All the while, the kids was ferever play-actin', pretendin' they was Buck the Buffalo Herder, or Sheena. Queen of the Jungle. "Sometimes...
...story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home to break up the engagement, intends to regain possession of her less brilliant but saner sister's soul, and go off with her, far away, to live happily ever after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life...
Checking into the quietly flossy Donner Trail Guest Ranch outside Reno, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, 54, began waiting out the six weeks' residence period required before she could sue for a Nevada divorce from New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Though Mrs. Rockefeller refused to see reporters, and her attorney, former Nevada Democratic National Committeeman William Woodburn, was scarcely more communicative, the presumption was that the grounds for the action would be the familiar Nevada catchall: mental cruelty...
Unorthodox Style. Part Indian, raven-haired Kenny McLean busted his first bronc-and took his first fall-at eleven on his father's cattle ranch in tiny (pop. 500) Okanagan Falls, B.C. "There wasn't much to do in 'Okay Falls' except hunt and fish,", Kenny explains, "so my brother and I built a chute and started riding." A natural athlete with superb coordination and balance, Kenny quickly learned to keep his feet loose in the stirrups, developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise...