Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal will be carried out. If he says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
...West, Young Man. Oppenheimer came back from Europe (after further study at Leiden and Zurich) with a racking cough. The doctors feared T.B., and advised the young man to go west. In New Mexico, near the spot where he had vacationed with Herbert Smith, Oppenheimer leased a ranch 35 miles from Santa...
Perro Caliente (Hot Dog), near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric...
Oppie was ready for the job: "In a way, Los Alamos was a kind of confluence of my highbrow past, my physics, my students, my horses, my ranch, and my slight knowledge of politics...
...been going to Denver to see his brother. Martin Mitzkus, his boss on the ranch at Forsyth, Mont., had offered to fly him there. They had stopped overnight at Casper, Wyo., had started out again in the morning. Ranch-hand Alvey, a rugged man of 37, remembered how the red. single-engined Taylorcraft had headed in between two peaks of the Medicine Bow Range. Then a downdraft had seized it, and the plane crashed...