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...Scotland last year decided to sell out, Hunt Oil purchased his 15% interest. "In the space of one week we bought in and were drilling," boasts Ray. The drills promptly struck a major pool estimated to contain as much as 500 million bbl. Says one crusty Texas oilman: "Dammit, he's got his father's luck...
Instead of being a prize to attract to Harvard its traditional scholar-athelete, it has now become a prize for general excellence, he said. "Dammit, we still like to beat Yale," he added...
...been slowed a little. "I've had quite a bad time of it for two years or so," he said, breaking a long silence about nagging health problems. His ailment? "It is called dermatomyositis, a wasting inflammation of the muscles. It's a rare disease, dammit, and no doctor can say whether you are going to get better." The illness, which sent Olivier to a London hospital last year, will not keep him from trouping before the cameras. Noting "the spiritual uplift that comes with work," he announced plans to appear opposite Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood...
...What makes me run?" Bailey has written. "I burn, dammit, that's why. I like to run." It is the same with flying. Bailey almost never delays a flight in his own aircraft. "It goes no matter what," and the "what" may be rain, snow, ice, fog, turbulence, thunderstorm or some combination thereof. One white-knuckled regular on these flights reports that Bailey invariably ends the hairiest trips by chortling: "Well, we've defeated the grim reaper once again...
...punched every day from eight to five. When it's 120 degrees on the floor, there's always the potential for "look what he is doing to me" and "what am I allowed to do to him" to churn together and wrestle and emerge as a "dammit I'll just do." Because it's you that's being killed--not morally shocked, or intellectually offended, or emotionally moved--but killed, threatened to the very last inch of your life...