Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LLOYD BENTSEN, 53. Suave and sophisticated, the Texas Senator is a landed millionaire (estimated worth: $2 million) whose cool style contrasts with the earthy, flesh-pressing ways of Texas politicians like Lyndon Johnson. Bentsen resists facile classification. His conservative image was buttressed by his unseating of Liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough in the 1970 primary and his opposition to busing and gun controls. Yet, claiming to be a political moderate, he has also opposed the SST, favored reduction in the oil depletion allowance, and voted to make it easier to cut off Senate filibusters. He is admired by Senate colleagues...
Kissinger denounced the cancellation of the meeting and pointed out, quite accurately, that the Administration had opposed the clause concerning OPEC members from the first but was overridden by Congress. Then the Administration persuaded Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas to introduce an amendment to the act that would grant nondiscriminatory trade treatment to those oil exporters that had not participated in last year's oil embargo...
...Lloyd H. Baillio, who is serving a term in a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, has filed suit against the U.S. Attorney General, charging that he should be allowed to conduct a normal sex life with a woman of his choice. Denying prisoners the right to sex, the suit charges, is "cruel and unusual punishment... comparable to the Chinese water torture." A federal district judge in New Orleans will decide...
...Nielsen Gallery on Newbury St. in Boston is exhibiting new acquisitions, including works by Moore, Miro, Roualt and Picasso. In the lobby of Gund Hall is an exhibit by the GSD of archetypal modern housing projects--featuring Frank Lloyd Wright, who, I was told on the plane heading for Boston last Sunday, did not really do most of his own designing. It seems he had a prolific underling...
...while Bennett's own station blasts out the real biggies. In that ultimate radio-ratings booster, the random phone-call contest, Bennett is like a child feeding ducks on a pond. At a station in Miami, he once handed out $125,000 in less than two months. Says Lloyd Melton, station manager of Phoenix's KUPD: "He gives contest money away to the extent that he virtually buys the market...