Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hobby paperbacks with the New American Library. His film production company has an hour color special, "The Wonderful World of Wheels," scheduled for September airing on CBS. He is a large stockholder in the Riverside, Calif., International Raceway; he is part owner of a 470,000-acre cattle ranch near Yosemite National Park; and his company's real estate division owns more than 250,000 sq. ft. along Hollywood Boulevard...
...MIGUEL. Growing up on a sheep ranch in New Mexico proves eventful for the ten-year-old hero (Pat Cardi) of a sturdy adventure film by the makers of such children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins...
...Century City, Alcoa's huge, 180-acre project on the edge of Beverly Hills and 14 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The land-which, as 20th Century-Fox's back lot, used to bristle with cowboys and Indians, and before that was Tom Mix's ranch-cost $43 million. So far, Alcoa has spent an additional $160 million for the hotel, two 13-story office buildings, a big shopping center, and a pair of I. M. Pei-designed apartment towers, billed as "Your prestige address in America's modern Acropolis...
...Mountain States Ranch School, Inc., stretches over 12,000 acres of six ranches in southeastern Wyoming's rolling Centennial Valley, 20 miles west of Laramie. Snow-capped mountains fringe the sky to the west. Brown trout leap to the hook in the Little Laramie River, just outside classrooms in a rustic old building on the V-Bar Ranch. The 39 students live in a log bunkhouse that once served as a station on the stagecoach line. Supported by funds from Rancher Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, the school pays each student $15 a week, charges no tuition...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...