Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOSPITALIZED. Johnny Cash, 51, stone-faced country and western singer; to avoid chemical dependency; in the Betty Ford Center of Eisenhower Medical Center; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Fearful that he might become hooked on drugs after taking prescribed painkillers for sciatic nerve spasms and surgery on a bleeding ulcer, the gravel-voiced Cash checked himself into a rehabilitation program...
...still performs backflips into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added almost two inches to his chest. The Rancho del Cielo physical regimen-wood chopping, fence building and horseback riding-was familiar, but who knew about the cure-all mental effects? "There's something that clears your senses in the out of doors . . . It gives you the right attitude . . . [Riding provides] a different perspective on life itself...
Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator...
...doesn't give interviews, and her public appearances on this trip were so fleeting. I sometimes thought I could learn as much by examining her profile on a British postage stamp." For White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, reporting the Queen's visit to President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo involved a harrowing trip by van along narrow mountain roads, fording storm-swollen streams, then marking time in rain, wind and fog. "At times like these," he muses, "one is tempted to long for the days when royalty, both hereditary and elected, were allowed more privacy...
When she was out in the drizzle, however, Her Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared. Her frustration was plain when, emerging from President Reagan's mountaintop Rancho del Cielo (Ranch in the Sky), she took a spritz of rain in the face. Recounted Brian Vine, the monocled correspondent of the London Daily Express: "She looked like she had backed a loser at the Newmarket races." Despite such signs of royal pique, her press secretary, Michael Shea, insisted that the Queen was unfazed by the weather. "She loves it," he declared. Then Shea got downright...