Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before leaving the ranch, Johnson got around to announcing what everyone had long expected, but what he had steadfastly refused to confirm all year: that between $9 billion and $10 billion in additional funds will be needed to finance the Viet Nam war in fiscal 1967. That doubles the Viet Nam tab, raises the current defense budget to $68 billion and overall federal spending to $127 billion. It also means that the deficit for the fiscal year ending in June will total at least $10 billion...
Increasingly, tourists in search of Hawaii's fabled charms look beyond Oahu. Jackie Kennedy visited Laurance Rockefeller's ranch house at the 265,000-acre Parker ranch on the "Big Island" of Hawaii this summer. Barbara Hutton tried the Royal Lahaina Hotel on Maui. Lynda Bird picked Kauai for her latest trip...
...also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month to $51 and $65 for a double, including two meals...
President Johnson spoke very highly of McCarthy. Before the 1964 election Johnson said: "I served with him in the Senate. He's the kind of man--as we say in the ranch country in Texas--who will go to the well with you. That's a homely way of saying you can count on him in dark days or bright ones...Gene McCarthy is my counselor, my colleague and my friend. I am benefitted by all three...
...polygraphy. Along with electronic gadgets, his jet-age operation includes five office cars and five investigators headed by the former chief investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...