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...GALVESTON, Tex., April 16--The Teamsters' top command declared today that AFL-CIO accusations of corrupt influences were unsupported by specific charges and that it would attend no hearings until "fundamentals of fair adjudication" are assured...
...operational use within the next twelve months under the first big production contract. Navy has placed $27 million order with Bendix Aviation Corp. for surface-to-air missile capable of carrying atomic warhead, will step up weapon's 75-mile range to 100 miles. Cruisers Little Rock and Galveston now are being converted to carry Talos...
...1920s he joined Galveston's W. L. Moody III, whose father was one of the world's richest men, in creating a mammoth oil, gas and sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth...
...place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it"), won 56 major tournaments; after a three-year fight with cancer; in Galveston, Texas. Ranked by many the world's greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson dabbled expertly in most sports she did not star in (including boxing, football, swimming, pool, tennis), matured from a pugnacious girl into a talented housewife who could design her own clothes, won several golf tournaments (1954 Women...
Hopefully a winner in her third bedridden round with cancer, courageous Super-Athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 42, checked out of a Galveston, Texas hospital. The leg and hip pains that brought her there were eased after intensive X-ray treatments. A full and final recovery? Said a doctor: "You can't always tell about those things...