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...shrewd a businesswoman as she is a politician, Lady Bird has parlayed an inheritance of $67,000 and 2,900 acres of Alabama cotton and timber land into a radio-TV station in Austin, Texas, four cattle ranches and a bulging stock portfolio. Her estimated net worth is about $5,000,000, but she is thrifty enough to buy "seconds" in household linens. "She asks the price of everything," says a friend. "When the house needs repair work, she gets three estimates." Yet her most notable quality is her capacity for enjoyment. "I wouldn't trade this life...
Tony DeAngelis, a onetime butcher, made himself a wealthy man by steering his New Jersey-based Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp. in and out of quick trades in the risky commodities futures market. Then DeAngelis thought he saw another chance for a fast fortune in soybean and cotton-seed-oil futures. If the Soviet bloc wheat crop failed, he reasoned, other farm products, including vegetable oils, must have suffered as well; and as soon as the Red nations had signed their wheat purchase contracts in the U.S., they would be back bidding on oils and other U.S. produce. DeAngelis...
...stockinged feet. At game's end, the score was Texas 17, T.C.U. 0-and Royal's Longhorns, the only unbeaten and untied major college team in the U.S., had clinched at least a tie in the Southwest Conference and the host's berth at the Cotton Bowl. A royal ending to a Royal afternoon...
...Texas gets past A. & M. and wins the paper championship, it will still have to prove its right to the title Jan. 1 in the Cotton Bowl, perhaps against No. 2-ranked Navy and brilliant Quarterback Roger Staubach. And that could be the game of this or any year-defense v. offense, running v. passing, Royal's thundering herd v. the Middies' one-man gang...
...West Germany, and Professor Giulio Natta of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy. Both men were among the first to recognize the potentialities of macromolecules-the aggregations of thousands of atoms that play an ever-increasing part in modern chemical industry. Some macromolecules, such as the cellulose molecules in cotton or wood, are formed by nature. Others must be formed by chemical trickery. Drs. Ziegler and Natta developed practical methods by which molecules of simple substances can be linked together in large but orderly chains or networks, producing the plastics and synthetic fibers that have become so prominent in everyday...