Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. March 1, 1918, on his fa ther's cattle ranch near Sao Borja, Rio Grande do Sul - next door to the ranch of the legendary strongman of the gauchos, Getulio Vargas...
...Travell, who won her White House position by reason of her treatments for Back Patient Jack Kennedy, assured Mister Sam that his pain would disappear with heat packs and perhaps some rest back at his Texas ranch. But the House was not so sanguine; Rayburn's many friends were especially disturbed by the fact that he was recently unable to make an important floor speech on behalf of the Administration's foreign aid bill...
From a world-worn valise stashed with his Manhattan publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, came the last will and testament of Novelist Ernest Hemingway. Handwritten by Hemingway at his Cuban ranch six years ago, the onionskin document left his entire unevaluated estate (including the manuscripts of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls which will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style...
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cattle roundup on the biggest ranch in North America, the 1,000,000-acre Gang Ranch near Clinton...
...Month. Ever since Nixon came home from Washington last February and began building a $135,000 Beverly Hills ranch house, most Californians have shared the same curiosity about his plans. Aware of the growing demand that he make up his mind, Nixon produced a carefully prepared statement. He was flattered to be asked to run, he said. But, he added, "My own experience is at the national and international level. I do not think I can turn my back on my responsibility to the national party...