Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn with an ovation, the newborn calves staggered after their mothers into greening pastures. The clear, swift-flowing Pedernales River sparkled under a benign sun, jack rabbits scampered across the country roads, and the bluebonnets spread their rich, bright cloak over the low hills. By midmorning at the L.B.J. Ranch, the winter-paled body of a weary man was slung in a canvas hammock, as the soothing strains of a Strauss waltz were wafted from a hi-fi speaker in a nearby live oak tree. Overhead, at the top of a 60-ft. pole, three flags billowed in the breeze...
...TIME, April 18) through 53 energy-sapping days of stormy debate, and the Senate-his Senate-was in recess for the Easter holidays. But Johnson yielded only his lanky body to the therapy of the sun; his restless mind was as busy as a hummingbird. From the sprawling old ranch house came the clatter of typewriter keys, as a pretty secretary tapped out a just-dictated letter; when Johnson called her through a handy squawk box, the secretary would return, her shorthand notebook and pencil at the ready. From time to time she handed Johnson a convenient extension telephone, with...
...Last October Johnson returned the Mexican President's hospitality with a huge fiesta at the ranch, featuring a Mexican band, platters of $2.50-per-lb. beef barbecue, hundreds of Mexican tricolors, 800 goggle-eyed guests, and a sign, prominently displayed on a tree: LYNDON JOHNSON SERÁ PRESIDENTE. Johnson and López Mateos made an entrance worthy of Auntie Mame in a helicopter, followed by Harry Truman and Mister Sam in another, smaller helicopter. It was, according to a Dallas reporter, "one of the most dramatic outdoor shows since they produced Aïda with live elephants...
...week's end, a wan Nelson Rockefeller left Manhattan for a brief vacation at his Venezuelan ranch. To his rapidly growing file on practical politics, he could add another lesson learned: the best intentions of study groups, the most carefully drawn legislation, and even the best-laid political plans can be swamped in the tides of personal rivalry...
...Morons." Would the Combs home measure up? A spotless $17,000 ranch house, it is filled with toys and African violets; the yard has swings, a slide, a sandbox. On his $119-a-week salary, Dick Combs hoped some day to send both Alice Marie and his own two younger daughters to college. Nor was there any question of Alice Marie's affection for her foster parents. Often she woke in the night, crying: "Mommy, are you still here?" But the social workers were unsatisfied, lined up what they considered more suitable parents, a childless couple with 1) more...