Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...
...magazine's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is an overgrown Western ranch-all adobe walls and in door barbecue pits. Streams meander over the property; flowers riot in the border beds. The setting could serve as a monument to leisure living, Western style, and that is exactly what it is. In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest...
Besides bossing the biggest independent oil company in California, ruddy Samuel Mosher, 71, the chairman of Signal Oil & Gas Co., pursues some profitable sidelines. On a 4,500-acre ranch near Santa Barbara and on an estate in Australia, he raises cymbidium orchids for florists. His Signal Oil owns a 48% interest in the globe-girdling American President Lines, which it bought at a distress sale, and he is chairman of the Flying Tiger Line which he helped to bankroll when it began 18 years...
...believer in individual responsibility, hates meetings and committees and expects the 13 Singer vice presidents to whom he freely delegates authority to make quick and clear decisions. A onetime lawyer (Columbia '39) who was twice wounded in World War II, Kircher lives with his family in an unpretentious ranch house in exurban New Jersey, where he keeps his stable...
...history, and is usually reactivated to accommodate an heir apparent. By picking Vice President Borch for it, the board cleared the way for the retirement of Ralph Cordiner, chairman and longtime chief executive. Cordiner has wanted to retire to his 1,800-acre West Florida cattle and citrus ranch, but postponed his departure long enough to untangle the lengthy list of suits arising from 1960's price-fixing decree against G.E. and 28 competitors. Last week Cordiner, 63, announced that he will step down in December. President Gerald Phillippe, 54, will move up to chairman, and Borch...