Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police the march route, demanded "federal civil authorities" to do the job because Alabama simply could not afford to. Obviously, Wallace was throwing to the President the onus of having to call out the Alabama National Guard. The President accepted the challenge and from the LBJ Ranch issued the orders that sent the Guard onto the parade route. "Responsibility for maintaining law and order in our federal system properly rests with state and local governments," the President scornfully advised Wallace in a telegram. "I thought that you felt strongly about this...
...last year, and after she presented her painting to the President in Washington, he wrote her that it was "a marvelous piece of work. You have captured a piece of my early years that mean a great deal to me." The President also owns her paintings of the LBJ Ranch and his boyhood home in Johnson City. I am very proud...
McNamara-who lopped off a cool $8 billion. In December, the J.C.S. members and McNamara all flew to the LBJ Ranch, where the President, sitting at a picnic table near the banks of the Pedernales River, heard them out. McNamara explained that he and the Chiefs were "98% agreed" on the budget-it was that other 2% that mattered. Each Chief explained why his service needed more money than McNamara wanted to allow. When it was all over, the President agreed with his Defense Secretary, and McNamara's cuts were reflected in the $49 billion military budget sent...
...become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp. plans to turn part of the late William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon ranch into a residential complex. Castle & Cooke, the Hawaiian food combine, is finishing off a 15-story medical building in Los Angeles, has major investments in California residential projects, and is planning a "Rockefeller Center of the Pacific" for downtown Honolulu...
...Pennsylvania and Maine, Hurd loves the desert. He lives without television, owns only riding boots, and eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...