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...Died. Clint Murchison Sr., 74, epitome of the Texas wheeler-dealer and one of the world's wealthiest men; of a heart attack; in Athens, Texas. Murchison went into wildcat drilling in his 20s, borrowing and trading for new wells ("financing by finaglin'," he called it), and soon was bringing in wells at a rate of 40 a year. By 1925, at age 30, he was worth $5,000,000, and he had hardly started. Leaping from venture to venture, merging and consolidating, he expanded into railroads, buslines and publishing until at one point he was said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Seeded first for the match is Dave Sawyier, followed by Jeff Reich, Ed Devereaux, captain Dave Fish, Art Brisbane and Clint Stephens. Fish and Devereaux will play in the number one doubles, Sawyier and Stephens will play number two, and Brisbane and Wilkenson will play number three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Racquetmen Face Indians Today | 5/14/1969 | See Source »

...elude me) who want to pretend that he can. Mr. Reynolds, who was probably in a TV show once, plays as if he were trying to become a child star, and Sam Whiskey is distinguished only by the quiet talents of Miss Dickinson (a long way from Hawks) and Clint "Cheyenne" Walker, a good actor...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: three New Westerns | 4/8/1969 | See Source »

...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood appear as the kind of super soldiers who could have won World War II during a weekend pass. Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mission Ridiculous | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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