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...Rancho del Monte ("sounded unpleasantly like a fruit cannery to me") was a 15-room house surrounded by 2,400 acres, and supporting two guest cottages, a bunkhouse, a swimming pool, a tennis court and "a couple of smallish private mountains." At $10 a day per paying guest, it was so far from supporting the Hootons that after four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly...
...year's end Barbara was stunned to learn that Rancho del Monte had turned a profit of $4.98. "Do we take that four ninety-eight profit and plow it into a fund for our old age?" she asked. "We do not," Bill said stanchly. "We put every penny of it back into the ranch." After a hectic visit to New York which showed her just what she was not missing. Barbara agreed...
...Since Rancho del Monte is still very much open for business, Guestward Ho! will probably net double royalties: 1) at the bookstalls, as a highly readable romp with two innocents in pueblo-land; 2) at Rancho del Monte and vicinity, where soon a big traffic...
...little did Sir Gawain (played in rancho accents by Sterling Hayden) know that Prince Val had been abducted by vile Viking traitors, the lady Aleta being merely a tasty dividend for the false king Slidor. While Sir Gawain pouted in a brown study Val was clambering about Scandinavian battlements winning back his father's kingdom...
Frog breathing increases the time which patients can spend outside the iron lung. Before learning the technique, one group of eleven patients at Rancho Los Amigos was able to remain outside their respirators for an average of only 4½ minutes. After mastering it, their average time jumped to 4½ hours. Frog breathing gives patients a big psychological boost, also enables them to cough, ending a small but maddening frustration that besets the paralyzed who feel the throat irritation but cannot relieve it, and it allows them to speak audibly...