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There was still one final worry: would the proportional system encourage splinter parties? Majority Leader Scott Lucas suggested a change which would require the winner to poll at least 40% of the electoral vote. If no candidate gets 40% of the vote, the winner would be picked from the two...
Three dry holes had been drilled in the dome before the arrival of an engineer, prospector and onetime Austrian naval officer named A. F. Lucas. Lucas drilled a fourth "duster at Spindletop." Undiscouraged, he set up new equipment and began again, determined to pierce 500 ft. of quicksand which lay...
Jackpots. After Spindletop, in the superlatives of the oilfields, came a jillion jackpots-roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. The automobile age created a rising demand, and after the Lucas No. 1, Texas wildcatters never stopped their probing in...
In the Havana gym, Scott Lucas accepted Dirksen's challenge-and managed to make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone...
Then Scott Lucas was off, like the pigeon, for Washington, to spend most of the next six months on the job, while Dirksen makes hay on the hustings.