Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years ago, he bought a 1,000-acre ranch called La Purisima, 70 miles northwest of Mexico City, and decided to raise fighting bulls for Mexico's bull rings. The ranch has cost Cantinflas $1,200,000 to date, and a good bit of it has gone to make life easier for the ranch hands and peasants in the surrounding countryside. He tripled the wages of his workers (to 12 pesos daily), built a church and model homes for his 50-man ranch crew, added a maternity clinic. Treatment is free to all local campesinos. Abuilding...
...federal works projects. In the years before Kerr went to the Senate, the Army engineers had spent some $63 million on Oklahoma water-development projects; they have since spent an estimated $312 million. In October 1961 President Kennedy flew to Kerr's 55,000-acre ranch near Big Cedar to dedicate a road that, in the words of one Oklahoma paper, "starts nowhere in particular and goes to a suburb of the same place." Even at the height of his power, Kerr still took the most pride in what he had done for his own state. As he flew...
Featured speakers at the rally were Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration, outgoing Rep. John Rousselot (R.-Calif.), now a full-time employee of the John Birch Society, Dr. Billy James Hargis of the Christian Crusade, and Thomas Anderson, editor of Farm and Ranch. The other speakers, such as Kent and Phoebe Courtney, New Orleans publishers, and Myers Lowman of Circuit Riders, Inc., are well know on the Right but not prominent nationally...
Thomas Anderson, editor of Tennessee's Farm and Ranch magazine, was introduced by the master of ceremonies as "a friend, and fellow-member on the council of the John Birch Society...
Exotic Gardener. Despite all the energy he gives to Chrysler, Townsend gets home to his unpretentious ranch house in suburban Bloomfield Township almost every night for dinner and seldom brings work with him. "I've never been one who measures the quality of a job by the length of time applied thereto," he says. With his wife Ruth, whom he met at the University of Michigan, he is an avid indoor gardener, raising such exotic plants as orchids and sea grapes. Summer weekends they spend at their cabin on Byram Lake, 45 miles from home, where Townsend water-skis, boats...