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Prudent Politics. Aside from consulting four parents on their projected oil needs, Aramco's easygoing President Thomas C. Barger, 54, runs his own shop. Barger's career tells much about the company: a geologist who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1937, Barger spent four parched years prospecting the Rub' al Khali, learned to eat roast camel with his fingers and speak fluent Arabic, became Aramco's chief negotiator with the shrewd Saudis...
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...even Allah has been there,'' Bedouin shepherds warned Arabian American Oil Co. Geologist Thomas C. Barger when he began to explore the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub Al Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran...
...Aramco's profits. He wants to force it to become an integrated company in hopes of extending Saudi control over its output, even though most oilmen know that the big profits in oil are from producing, not from refining and marketing. Aramco also announced the election of Thomas Barger, 49, who was vice president and assistant to the president before, as president to succeed Norman Hardy, who was named board chairman. ¶ Avard E. Fuller. 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Fuller Brush Co., to succeed his older brother. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, who was killed...
...stuck it out for four years; the first two interested her. She enjoyed doing research on the brain, enjoyed writing a comparative study which Dr. Llewellys Barger incorporated in his book. However, the faculty and students criticized her constantly, and, by the third year, Gertrude was overwhelmingly bored. Says the Author's Journal: "There was a good deal of intrigue and struggle among the students that she liked, but the practice and theory of medicine did not interest...