Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, who on earlier summer retreats to his beloved Rancho del Cielo chopped wood and bagged rattlesnakes with photogenic robustness, clearly had been itching to get back in the saddle again. Says one aide: "If the President had his way, he would have ridden a horse from Point Mugu (the Naval air station some 60 miles away, where Air Force One lands) to the ranch." Reagan at least had plenty of time to read the stacks of briefing papers National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane keeps feeding him in preparation for the November summit in Geneva. The papers range from...
...First Lady has always been a good sport about the rustic pleasures of Rancho del Cielo, but she has been unable to conceal her preference for palling about with old chums like Socialite Betsy Bloomingdale in more citified surroundings. Last week Nancy got a chance to sample the glitzy social whirl of Beverly Hills when the Reagans came down off the mountain for a three-day sojourn in lotus land. They hobnobbed at dinner parties with old Hollywood cronies like Jimmy Stewart, and ate chicken with three of their children (Maureen was in Sacramento) in a $3,000a-night presidential...
Still, because only a handful of Americans now contract polio every year, most doctors practicing in the U.S. have never seen a case. Says Dr. Jacquelin Perry, chief of pathokinesiology at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Downey, Calif.: "No one anticipated this. It has taken us by surprise...
...pain, sympathy and gentle reproach. Mary Tyler Moore, 46, who chilled the same hearts in Ordinary People that she warmed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has joined the roster of celebrities (Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Liza Minnelli) who have checked into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for help with an alcohol problem. Moore, a diabetic since 1968, did so on the advice of doctors, who suggested that although she is not a heavy drinker she ought to halt even social drinking, which can be dangerous for diabetics. One of those concerned physicians...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...