Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counting on winning the presidency legitimately in next year's elections. But things soon began to sour. The mayor of La Paz, another general, entered the presidential race. Radicals in the legislature opened fire on Ovando, charging that he had accepted $600,000 from the U.S.-owned Bolivian Gulf...
Ovando's first acts were the sort designed to pacify his juniors. He named a "really revolutionary" civilian-military Cabinet whose oldest member is 44. He scrapped the code under which Gulf operates in Bolivia as "prejudicial," emulating Peru's recent takeover of the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Gulf, which now pays Bolivia 30% of its profits and 11 % of the oil it pumps, may be pressured to hand over part ownership of the subsidiary...
...musician masked, glassed, in a transparent nightmare of snow white. The score before him is withered moonlight. The snakes who wove a raft to carry him have fled away beneath the sea. He holds his flute still, as a drowning man clutches a straw. There could be no greater gulf than that which separates Stuart's Flautist from the Black King painted by Hieronymus Bosch. The King is Caspar, the Moorish monarch and one of the Three Magi. He dominates Bosch's Epiphany at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The other Magi kneel to adore Jesus. Caspar...
...clear for the Israeli tankers. The next night, landing craft carried them without opposition across the gulf to the Egyptian coast. Laden with extra fuel, extra guns and extra ammunition, the Israelis swiveled off the landing craft before dawn. They achieved total surprise and inflicted heavy casualties on their 40-mile sweep down the coast. As the convoy moved south through El Hafayer, trucks pulled off the two-lane asphalt highway with friendly waves to make way for what appeared
Then the results were announced. For the first six tracts, a combine of Gulf Oil, British Petroleum and its Alaskan subsidiary bid $97 million. Another tract, just southwest of Prudhoe Bay, brought the highest single bid of the day, submitted jointly by Amerada Hess and Getty Oil: $72,277,133. A rival consortium of Phillips, Mobil and Standard Oil of California had bid a scant $164,133 less. Having underestimated on one tract, the same group decidedly overestimated on another, making a bid of $18,130,000. The next highest bid was a nominal...