Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labored as long as 1½1 hours a day. As the strike deadline loomed, Johnson cut the lunchtime lag by sending in steaks and ice cream "to keep them hard at it." Toward week's end he talked direly of transporting both teams bodily to the LBJ Ranch where, he is fond of observing, the September sun can be a powerful persuader...
...long, long stalemate, he suggested charitably, had not been "so the union would win, or the companies would win-but that the nation would win. And the American nation has won." And so, after winning the biggest victory of all, Lyndon Johnson at last got off to the ranch...
Closest of all to this week's cover subject is Painter Peter Hurd, who lives and works on his 2,200-acre ranch. The Sentinel, near San Patricio in southern New Mexico. There he raises Brangus cattle and Thoroughbred horses, and has an apple orchard that produces in commercial quantity. The ranch is really an avocation ("Luckily, it's not my livelihood"), and Peter at times starts out to ride the range with his foreman and fails to get where he is heading because he stops to sketch scenes that particularly catch his eye. During the sittings...
...almost too active to join a small, private birthday party at the L.B.J. Ranch. After sticking to his desk for an extra day because of the steel dispute, Johnson finally flew to Texas at week's end to feast on a 20-lb. birthday cake decorated at Lady Bird's request with small frosting-symbols of Johnson legislation passed by Congress (a hypodermic syringe for medicare, a schoolhouse for aid to education). His presents were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since...
...smoking beatniks and is inexplicably attacked by the British army (the adults they meet are all bad). Before they run out of location shots, Dave and Barbara have also taken a walk in the snow on a deserted road, gone horseback-riding at an all-but-deserted dude ranch. Talked Things Over in a deserted bus, and dashed across some deserted sand dunes, only to be run to earth by the evil adman in a deserted summer resort. It all lurches to a halt with Model Ferris on her way back to plugging meat and the Five on their...