Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pieces of fan mail he gets every week. With an annual income of more than $200,000, he tried his hand at investing, succeeded so well that he now sits on the boards of three companies, owns or has interests in an auto agency, a music-publishing house, a ranch, a record-pressing firm, a water utility, a realty company, and a 400-unit apartment house. His biggest killings have been in real estate; he once snapped up 21 acres for $6,250, recently sold them...
...most often in formal circumstances, at press conferences or speechmaking. NBC set the balance straight with a beautifully photographed color documentary that placed the man in the context of his own countryside. The fabulous hills and by now mythical Pedernales River were reduced to their actual proportions, to sere ranch land and meandering stream. Next to them, the President suddenly appeared lifesize, and shucking both his White House mantle and "jes' folks" delivery, he reminisced about his beginnings with pride, enthusiasm, wit and spontaneity...
...throw a baseball faster than anybody else in the American League, and he stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall-"two inches of which," someone once noted, "is hair." Sam's taste in clothes is provocative. He showed up for work this spring looking like Black Bart-black ranch pants, black coat, black neckerchief, black cowboy boots and black Stetson. As far as Cleveland Manager Birdie Tebbetts is concerned, "McDowell can wear a breechcloth and feathers if he wants"-so long as he mows down American League hitters the way he has ever since the 1966 season started...
...became the site for what is now Johnson City, the family cemetery and his grandmother's bravery during an attack by Indians, the house in which he was born (now a museum), the school he attended and his teacher (who will be interviewed on the show), his present ranch and the surrounding countryside-from the Pedernales River to Pack Saddle Mountain. Mrs. Johnson also makes a brief appearance on the program to recollect the story of their whirlwind courtship...
...grizzly old saddle tramp, saves the ladies from stampedes, seductions and desperadoes. He also delivers them safely to Texas Cattle Baron Brian Keith, who gives the film's liveliest performance as an unsanitary Scottish laird, up to his red beard in the debris of a crumbling ranch fortress that looks like condemned property. Maureen starts tidying up the place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs...