Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool...
...middle one, Jerry Ford, 68, was back at Rancho Mirage in California, excavating fairway divots and making final preparations for the Sept. 18 dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. He too will then take a swing abroad, stopping off first in London for the Bob Hope British Classic golf tournament and then moving on to Sweden, Denmark and Finland. After that? Stay tuned...
...Sacramento and Washington-to say nothing of President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo-Republicans could take wry pleasure in speculating about the effects of the Medfly crisis on the Democratic Governor's political ambitions. Farmers began declaring that the state's real plague is "Brown rot." A new poll showed that a stunning 60% of all Californians rated Brown's handling of the situation as poor...
...sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters have no Rancho del Cielo to escape to; and one must wonder if the nation can really be steered from the saddle...
...clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing today, reporters jot down "no news." Still, reporters and photographers are a brave lot and are taking in stride events like wine-tasting excursions to nearby vineyards, when they are not peering down at Rancho del Cielo with binoculars, praying for a sign. None is forthcoming. This is August. The President is on vacation. -By Roger Rosenblatt. Reported by Douglas Brew/Santa Barbara