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Died. Robert J. Kleberg Jr., 78, baronial Texan cattleman; of stomach cancer; in Houston. As president of the family-owned King Ranch Inc., Kleberg managed 12 million acres of land on four continents, an area larger than Belgium. Over four decades, he used the rich oil and gas revenues of King Ranch's Texas spread (roughly the size of Rhode Island) to subsidize his first love, ranching, and his hobby, racing horses (among them Assault, 1946 Triple Crown winner). When drought threatened the King herds in 1917, Kleberg painstakingly began breeding Indian Brahman bulls with Texas shorthorns to produce...
...Angeles, Bureau Chief Richard Duncan assigned reporters to sound the public's temper throughout the Western states. In addition, Duncan conducted interviews himself, questioning among others a cattleman, a small-town banker, a former Nixon Administration official and Duncan's own daughter-about the sentiments of her eighth-grade history class...
...Where else but in South Carolina would a congressional candidate named Julian Sidi Limehouse III campaign in red, white and blue tennis sneakers? Yet Limehouse, 33, a Republican cattleman, is certainly considered more progressive than his opponent, Incumbent Democratic Representative Mendel J. Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand...
...wandered into the first hoping to find a sleeper, and was instead treated to a Marlboro commercial cum contemporary sex and violence. Ostensibly, the film is a realistic account of a north-from-Texas cattle drive, as seen through the eyes of a novice cattleman (none other than the Summer of '42 boy, Gary Grimes). But I can't trust it past the costumes and they too look a bit anxiously picturesque...
...come to Spain for the sun. Missionaries all, they were Southern Baptist laymen-farmers, mail carriers and bankers. Their task: to help the struggling Spanish Baptists stage an evangelistic crusade. "The Bible was a story of people who walked in faith in a hostile land," declared Dallas Cattleman L.S. Rowland in a stem-winding oration, translated from roughhewn English to smooth Spanish by another missionary. "The truth is that we may move all of Spain...