Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guarded Secret. Though it was to end as history's most publicized gallbladder operation,* Johnson's ailment was a rigidly guarded secret for almost a month. His troubles began last Sept. 7, the day after Labor Day. In his first-floor bedroom at the LBJ Ranch, he awakened shortly after 6 a.m. with a sharp abdominal pain. His first thought was that it might have been something he ate. Then, perhaps mindful of the pains that accompanied his near-fatal heart attack in 1955, Lyndon woke Lady Bird, talked it over with her, and agreed that...
...cholesterol, bile acids and other digestive substances, and when they interfere with the flow of fat-digesting bile to the duodenum (see diagram), they may cause sharp and colicky pain, especially after a heavy, fatty meal. This is what happened to President Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch early last month...
...faith of your choice" is misleading. We do not choose our religion--it is indelibly branded into us by indoctrination in childhood much as calves are branded on a Western ranch. THE GREAT AND INEXCUSABLE TRAGEDY IS THAT PEOPLE OF THE HIGHEST INTELLIGENCE IN NON-RELIGIOUS FIELDS AND OF THE GREATEST GOOD WILL REMAIN DIVIDED AND IN CONFLICT BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO EVALUATE OR PERMIT OTHERS TO EVALUATE THAT WHICH THEY ACCEPTED IN IMMATURE AND INEXPERIENCED CHILDHOOD...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...
...lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...