Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relaxing last week after his gallant but futile uphill campaign against Carter. In Palm Springs, Calif., the President and his family were ensconced in a palm-shaded, 14-room villa owned by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone; it is part of a millionaires' development called Rancho Mirage. Ford worked at his rusty golf game at some of the swankest courses on the Coast: Thunderbird, La Quinta and Eldorado. "Relax," he told reporters. "Have a good time. No pressure." For the first time since he became President, his staff did not even refer to the journey as a "working...
...Rancho Pahs Verdes, Calif...
...little later, Republican Ronald Reagan went through a similar R.-and-R. weekend, with appropriate regional differences. At his 600-acre Rancho del Cielo, in the Santa Ynez Mountains 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, he entertained 80 reporters and staff at a Mexican fiesta. Wearing a Western shirt, blue jeans and boots, he greeted guests with Wife Nancy at his side. Donning a cowboy hat, Reagan shouted to the TV camera pointed at him, "Ready when you are, C.B.!" a joking reference to the late director Cecil B. DeMille...
...Shade at 4, 7:20 and 10:45; Rancho Deluxe...
Hilton's 8-lb. myoelectric (from the Greek myos, for muscle) arm was developed at Northwestern University and modified by engineers and researchers at the medical-products division of General Atomic and at Rancho Los Amigos, a hospital associated with the University of Southern California. The arm, which can be fitted with either a hook or a normal-looking hand, does not look much different from other powered prostheses. But the similarities are only skin deep. Most artificial arms use a system of receivers on the surface of the skin and microtransmitters under the skin to carry messages from...