Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, though millionaire ranch owners back in Texas, put up, when in the capital, in a modest, nondescript house on the edge of Rock Creek Park. The house would do for a Texas Senator, but they could entertain only six or eight people at a time, and as their daughters, Lynda Bird (now 17) and Lucy Baines (14), grew up, the need for more room and closet space for all the L.B.J.s in the family became critical. And, as Vice President of the U.S., Lyndon felt the need of something a little more impressive...
...hoods and their families came out and started pushing the NBC cameramen around; Brinkley showed that, too. A more obvious entry in the Journal dealt with that old American folk hero, the cowboy, as he lives in 1961. Brinkley found his latter-day cowboys at a 200,000-acre ranch in Wyoming, where the working day begins at 3 a.m. with breakfast, and other meals are served at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.. and the menu never varies: beef, beans, potatoes. The surprising truth seems to be that the American cowboy has changed very little essentially...
...just half an hour, Kennedy was airborne again, on the way to spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity...
...miles on commercial planes alone; he uses the flight time to catch up on his reading (currently: Protracted Conflict: A Challenging Study of Communist Strategy). When he is at home base, Jones's workday begins when he awakens at 6:30 a.m. In his ten-room, $150,000 ranch house, Jones starts each day simply by "lying in bed and just thinking for half an hour-it's a time when my objectivity is at its best." Then he plunges into a furious round of keep-fit exercises (25 pushups, 25 knee bends, ten laps in the pool...
...discussion, he really does Smith dirt. "Smith professors view their students with a kind of exasperated admiration," Boroff says. "They respect the girls' skills and commitment to work, but they are deeply offended by their tendency to sell themselves short and settle for the drab goals of husband and ranch house...