Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only when he treated Konrad Adenauer to a barbecue at the LBJ Ranch or invited a camel driver from Pakistan to come to Washington did Johnson emerge from behind the wall of obscurity that surrounds the vice-President. The brilliant administrator, the manager of Senators has spent his time touring Scandinavia and mending Democratic fences in Texas. The few jobs assigned to him seemed to be sinecures created to give the vice-President something...
...Bond Every Month. Daughter of an Alabama storekeeper turned Texas rancher, Lady Bird was fresh out of the University of Texas when she met Lyndon Johnson in 1934. He was working as secretary to Congressman Richard Kleberg, a part-owner of the famed King Ranch. "I knew I'd met something remarkable," she says, "but I didn't know quite what." Johnson proposed on their first date-and ten weeks later they were married. "My aunt objected," she says. "But my daddy said some of the best deals are made in a hurry." Lyndon's salary...
...stake is the fortune-which may prove to be worth as much as $300 million-left by the late Sarita Kenedy East. She was a granddaughter of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who was co-founder of the famed King Ranch and later became sole owner of the neighboring La Parra Ranch-an empire of 400,000 acres and 25,000 head of cattle. Sarita was an aloof and eccentric widow who liked her whisky and was more at ease with her Mexican ranch hands than with her wealthy landowning neighbors...
Before Maureen can slip away with Daughter Stefanie Powers to strike a blow for gracious living, McLintock takes Patrick on as a ranch hand. The youngsters' romance blooms as soon as Stefanie disposes of her Harvard-educated suitor. Out in Marlboro country before the turn of the century, Harvardmen don't amount to much-they are apt to sing and dance and run off at the mouth. "He says anyone who wants to sell at a profit is reactionary-that's me!" Wayne growls...
Marriage Revealed. Joan Irvine Swinden Penniman Burt, 30, leggy great-granddaughter of Real Estate Man James Irvine and principal (21%) heiress to the 88,000-acre $500 million Irvine Ranch south of Los Angeles, site of the world's largest private civic development project now under way, designed by Architect William Pereira; and Morton Wistar ("Cappy") Smith, 47, Virginia country squire and champion show-horse trainer; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on Sept...