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...impetus came last fall from Oilman Dean A. McGee (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries), who has long been concerned with improving his state's educational standing. "Industry today goes where it can find knowledge and skill," says McGee, and he wants industry to find those commodities in Oklahoma. When his ideas brought no response from the football-prone University of Oklahoma, McGee turned to neighboring O.C.U. and struck academic oil. An O.C.U. trustee himself, he organized a steering committee of ten other businessmen and O.C.U.'s enthusiastic President Jack S. Wilkes. After a survey of the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Brother | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Journey to Understanding (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Frank McGee, Joseph C. Harsch, Edwin Newman at the summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Byrd was yodeling for Johnson and against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: A Man Who Takes His Time | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...Supreme Court chamber was turned into a Senate dormitory. Lady Bird Johnson showed up with a fresh change of pajamas for the majority leader. Maine's Margaret Smith posed daintily for photographers as she tucked herself into a cot (fully clothed) for the night. Wyoming's Gale McGee hauled in a sleeping bag. Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire got himself photographed in his skivvies. At first it almost seemed fun: a visit to the Senate gallery became a social must for Washington's late-evening crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Filibuster | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Oil Boom | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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