Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual and tropical, "exactly what you'd think Florida should be." It is a middle-class dream of the place to go when the children are grown and retirement looms. For the next four years, Key Biscayne* will be President-elect Nixon's equivalent of the L.B.J. ranch or John Kennedy's Hyannisport compound...
Lethal Right. Raised on a ranch in Pottawatomie County, Kans. Willard migrated to Oklahoma, where he broke horses and ran a frontier freight-wagon service, Marveling at the way Big Jess tossed around 500-lb. bales of cotton, his friends told him that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring...
...Major Risk. Nixon, on the other hand, visited Johnson at the L.B.J. ranch immediately after he became the G.O.P.'s nominee in August, has since spoken on the phone with the President perhaps a dozen times. Last week, just six days after the election, Dick and Pat called on Lyndon and Lady Bird. The four lunched together. Then, as the hostess took her successor for a tour, the men went to work. Sitting in a familiar spot-the Cabinet Room's vice presidential seat-Nixon was briefed on major security problems by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and other...
...increase from a maximum of 5% to 8% in order to bring in $35 million in much-needed revenues. His Democratic rival, Superior Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted for a sales tax with no exemption for ranch machinery. "Pay More? What For?" was the slogan that Montana's tough, three-term attorney general, Forrest H. Anderson, 55, used to dump Babcock?and it reflected the voters' mood in at least nine of the state elections. Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, seeking a second term, nearly met a similar fate...
...modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...