Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably call Sirhan's former employer, Food-Store Owner John Weidner, who worried about Sirhan's irrational temper. Sirhan's mother and brothers are expected to claim that his personality deteriorated after he fell from a horse and landed on his head while working on a ranch two years before the murder...
...tough as he. They tended their herds, sleeping in tree platforms at night to fend off attacks by pumas, and they carried water in buckets for the shade trees they planted. Before Hart died in 1961, they put together a spread of 185,000 leased acres, with buildings and ranch houses worth $200,000. Hart and his sons never gave up U.S. citizenship, and two of the boys served in the U.S. armed forces...
Somehow the Harts and other white ranchers whose land is in the disputed area got together with the Venezuelan air force, and soon a Venezuelan plane landed at Harry Hart's ranch. About 40 ranchers flew off to a Venezuelan army training base, where they got automatic rifles, bazookas and instruction in how to use them. Just after New Year, the plane flew the rebels back to the Harts' domain, and the pocket revolution...
...White House ceremony, President Johnson hailed the Apollo 8 astronauts as "history's boldest explorers" and awarded NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to each man. Then the astronauts gave the President an award. "Jim Lovell has a picture of the ranch I think you would like to have," said Borman. Lovell stepped forward with a color picture of the barren lunar landscape below a blue and white earth...
...neatly into his pattern for profit. It flies from several key cities into Las Vegas, Hughes' headquarters. In Nevada, which Hughes likes because it has no state income tax, he has picked up an estimated $150 million worth of properties, including the Sands, the Desert Inn and huge ranch lands. If, as Hughes predicted in a rare statement, Las Vegas should balloon to the size of Houston, Air West will be flying right alongside...