Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught up was Jackie in her favorite sport that she missed a White House meeting with the patrons of Washington's Gallery of Modern Art (the President pinch-hit), and daily chased the hounds across the misty Virginia fields near Upperville, where the Kennedys are building a ranch house costing approximately $90,000. During one three-hour hunt, the First Lady chivalrously dismounted to open a gate for her fellow riders. Said one weary young horseman: "It was nice of her to open that gate, but I sure did feel funny going through...
...first priority, Sterling set out to rebuild Stanford's faculty with a small cadre of ambitious professors who spread the gospel of Bay area living all over the East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years...
...gain greatly in poise and range as seniors. A recent Rhodes Scholar who might have graduated in three years and who, all agreed, could have written an excellent honors essay after his third year, went that summer instead to a Harvard project in Africa; he had worked on a ranch in the previous summer and, whether or not through the cumulative force of these bright months, had as a senior an case and joy, also a physical strength and impressiveness, that he lacked to the same degree before. This is not to say that he might not have...
...about her bargain with his mother. He shoots himself in despair; she goes to Paris. All these witty antics take place in a seaside retreat as elegant as suburban Miami. At least the Italians have St. Peter's or the Borghese Gardens for a backdrop; in Argentina there are ranch houses and shopping centers. The European haut monde diverts itself with chic and decadent parties, but in Argentina the big money falls back on canasta and TV westerns for its kicks...
Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...