Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except a religious way"), people who were worried about the oil-depletion allowance, who resented Lyndon Johnson's second place on the ticket. Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls had picked teams for water polo, run through a touch-football game and corralled survivors for a tug of war. By dinnertime they were ready with a skit spoofing the lines they had fluffed along the way. A lone male reporter, almost dismembered during...
...Volcano Ranch, 20 miles west of Albuquerque, a group of 19 small, coop-like structures covers a grassy, mile-wide plain. Inside each coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening...
Rossi's ray catcher at-Volcano Ranch is an array of scintillation counters that gives electrical signals whenever fast-moving particles hit it. If a shower looks interesting, its record is transferred to tabulator cards and analyzed by a computer at Kirtland Air Force Base. The final answer tells the ray's energy when it hit the top of the atmosphere and caused the shower...
...between the Communists and the government. He is the one who meets secretly with Castro and Guevara. In 1955 the P.S.P. met underground and set out some "Fundamental Points." It demanded: ¶"Nationalization of foreign public service companies." ¶"Nullification of concessions to Yankee imperialists such as the King Ranch, mining and oil companies." ¶"Commercial relations with all nations, such as the Soviet Union, Communist China." ¶"Return to Cuban sovereignty of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo." With last week's seizure by Cuba of the U.S.-owned Moa Bay nickel-mining plant, grabbing...
...vision and tenacity of a wiry, blue-eyed cowboy named Ralph Bramel Lloyd, who died in 1953 when his dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire reached the knoll, the ground suddenly burst into shooting flame. Lloyd leaped off his horse, breaking his leg as he jumped...