Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome young men were remarkably alike. Each lived in a ranch-style house with a wife and family, one in Morganton, N.C., and the other in Roanoke, Va., 140 miles away. One was the state's Republican chairman and a former North Carolina state senator running for another term, ranked among the most successful and energetic of the South's new breed of rising young Republicans; the other frequently talked Republican politics among his neighbors. Each was in a business that kept him away from home a lot, and each flew in his own private plane. In fact...
Among the 700 people at the New Mexico meeting were some who came all the way from ranches in Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner...
...Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...lady journalists at a Theta Sigma Phi convention in San Antonio by asking them all over for breakfast. When 50 accepted. Lady Bird, a Theta Sig since her days as a University of Texas journalism student in 1933 chartered a bus for the 78-mile drive to the L.B.J. ranch, laid on a brunch of deer sausages, grits, and homemade peach preserves, sent the newshens away clucking...
Woodland West had the unmistakable development look, but its houses were spaced irregularly, and had variations of external finish that enabled them to be labeled ranch, colonial, rustic or modern...