Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere that Bashir went, his fluent comments flowed like a Rubaiyat. In Kansas City, Harry Truman was so flabbergasted that he referred to the camel driver as "His Excellency." At a barbecue on the L.B.J. ranch in Texas, Bashir remarked that his little daughter was his favorite child (only four of his eleven children are living) because "a daughter in a family is like spring among the seasons." Asked about his camel (who was reported to be pining away for him back home), Bashir thought a moment, then opined: "A camel is like a woman-you never know what...
...where none were needed. Sample: in Nevada, after three federal highway interchanges were built for $384,000, investigators clocked an average traffic run of only 89 cars a day; one of the interchanges gives out on a road serving nothing but a railroad shanty, another leads only to a ranch, while the third leads to some unused mines, a few small ranches and a since-abandoned bordello...
Lumbago-lamed at his Texas ranch, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 79, reported that he was still "hurting some" but expected to be "jumping around soon." Sure enough, two days later, when grilled about rumors that he might resign the speakership-a post he has held twice as long as any predecessor-Mister Sam started jumping, gaveled down the motion with one word: "Idiocy...
...When Financier Floyd Odlum, longtime boss of Atlas Corp., retired last year at 68 to his Indio, Calif., ranch, the smart money bet that it would not last. Odlum, the argument ran, was constitutionally incapable of slowing down after 37 years of buying, revitalizing, and selling off such companies as Paramount Pictures, Hilton Hotels, Greyhound Corp., Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum...
...studied law at Porto Alegre Uni versity, where his stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 175 Ibs.) good looks won him a Ro meo's reputation. At the same time he built his own cattle ranch to fat prosperity...