Word: alcorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither the size nor the complexity of the equipment deters the thieves. Alcorn Well Service Inc. of Victoria, Texas, reports $15,000 worth of gear stolen this year; latest loss: a $1,200 pair of 60-lb. elevators used to pull pipe. Says Alcorn Vice President Jimmy Hendrix: "Just about dang near every weekend somebody gets hit. They come in after dark, strip your rig, and we never recover anything...
...damaging their chances. Vice President Nixon, assigned to weigh party sentiment, found that virtually all Republican candidates wanted Adams out. That jibed with Nixon's own view then, though in the Frost interview he never suggested that he privately sought Adams' resignation. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn also told Ike, "Sherm must...
TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele, then the TIME-LIFE Washington bureau chief, remembers how Adams got the word. After hearing from Alcorn, Ike agreed to dump Adams. But he himself would not wield the ax against his close friend. Ike apparently reasoned that the task of cashiering Adams properly belonged to the political chief of the party, since it was essentially a political affair. Eisenhower asked Alcorn and Nixon to talk to Adams. He told Alcorn: "You've got to handle it. It's your job." Alcorn summoned Adams from a vacation in Canada to give...
...happened, about an hour before this troublesome session, Nixon begged off, telling Alcorn on the phone that there were too many newspapermen around. Said one participant in the final episode: "Nixon was never more than a back-seat passenger in the whole thing...
Holtz, who is part coach, part faith healer and part song-writer, tried to reverse the dry rot afflicting the slumping Jets under Charlie Winner by dealing away highly-touted cornerback Roscoe Word and linebacker Godwin Turk and benching Alcorn A&M graduate Rich Sowells in favor of Schaefer Suggs, who was burned for a 79-yd. scoring hook-up between Bert Jones and Roger Carr on Sunday...