Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of the family, shook her head, flustered. "I haven't been asked," she piped politely. The President of the U.S. put his arm around the elderly woman. "Pack your dress," he said in that soft, earnest tone, "and come on with us. Be at the ranch no later than 4:40. Air Force One won't leave without...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
...would be well-nigh impossible, complained President Johnson during his long sessions with Budget Director Kermit Gordon at the LBJ Ranch, to squeeze Government spending next year to less than $100 billion. There was no magic in the arbitrary $100 billion figure. Having mentioned it, however, Johnson was able to display a flourish of frugality when he sent Congress a budget this week calling for $99.7 billion...
...matted green jungles of Brazil's primitive Amazon valley territory of Amapá sits a surprising little town. With its broad, paved streets, ranch-style houses, well-stocked supermarket and air-conditioned club, it looks more like a suburb of New York or Los Angeles than a settlement in the wilderness. It is the town of Serra do Navio (pop. 2,200), and it is run by a company that has become a Latin American model of profitable cooperation between local and foreign capital...
...Southwest, equally prized by Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, Kurd, now 60, is trying to preserve the look of a fading way of U.S. life. Like his brother-in-law, Andrew Wyeth, he finds all his subject matter, says he, "within five miles of my home." His ranch, The Sentinel, ranges over 2,200 acres where he raises cattle and, in less arid parts, apples, peaches and pears. It is not a big spread by Western standards, but profit is not its true purpose...