Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen he had almost as much clout. It is axiomatic that in order to be a conservative, the individual has to have something to conserve. Wayne had made more money on horseback than Eddie Arcaro. He had property, a big rep and a new wife, Mexican-born Actress Esperanza Baur. He was Hollywood's super-American, whose unswerving motto was "Go West and turn right...
Grinding out his two or three epics a year, Wayne feinted a jab with Big Jim McLain, the story of a ham-fisted HUAC investigator. It failed because Wayne was as uneasy in mufti as he was playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. In that film, Mongolia became westernized when Wayne announced to Tartar Woman Susan...
...first time in his life, Chain-Smoker Wayne began to feel kinda poorly. Pilar persuaded him to consult a doctor. He dropped out of sight for a few months, then surfaced after a successful operation at Good Samaritan Hospital to utter his most quoted line: "I licked the big C." He was minus one lung, but his energy had not diminished...
...deterioration in stock prices, their brokers are grappling with many longer-range problems that will importantly affect the future of the securities business. Should brokerage houses be permitted to sell their own shares to the public? What kind of commission discounts should the stock exchanges give to the big institutional investors? The answers to these and other basic questions will depend largely on the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington's watchdog over Wall Street. The times would seem to call for a tough-minded decision maker as SEC chairman. In Hamer H. Budge...
...improve its lubricating oil. By now, a can of top-quality motor oil is only 80% to 85% petroleum; the rest is a complex blend of chemicals that are added to keep it from thinning out, prevent engine deposits and neutralize the acids that are byproducts of combustion. The big oil companies - such as Gulf, Mobil and Texaco - work close ly with auto producers to devise formulas that will meet the specific needs of each engine, depending upon its horsepower and the climate in which the car is usually driven. Still, many motorists attempt to outguess the experts by using...