Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Clint Murchison Sr., 74, epitome of the Texas wheeler-dealer and one of the world's wealthiest men; of a heart attack; in Athens, Texas. Murchison went into wildcat drilling in his 20s, borrowing and trading for new wells ("financing by finaglin'," he called it), and soon was bringing in wells at a rate of 40 a year. By 1925, at age 30, he was worth $5,000,000, and he had hardly started. Leaping from venture to venture, merging and consolidating, he expanded into railroads, buslines and publishing until at one point he was said...
...Absence makes the heart grow fonder," goes a classic one-liner, "of someone else." By necessity, the U.S. armed services often separate men from their wives for a year or more. Several recent psychiatric studies indicate that for most of the marriages, absence can make a wife's heart grow gloomy, resentful, alcoholic, hypochondriacal or even suicidal well before thoughts of adultery or divorce set in. Far from making "December June," as Tennyson once put it, reunion often leads to fights or sexual frigidity...
...when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer for their branch of service, suffer fewer pangs than the wives of presumably less enthusiastic Army draftees. In recent months, widespread public discouragement over the Viet Nam war has begun to bother military wives. "A man will do anything, and his wife will cheerfully accept...
...wives of submarine sailors, says that extreme dependency is common in wives who never fully break from strong childhood attachments to their mothers. Such women unconsciously come to view their husbands as a source of the same security that their mothers provided and veer easily into breakdowns when their men are away...
...Other men have lost their lives in the Civil War; Milo has lost his identity. He remembers nothing that happened before his war injury. Now, fearful and gullible, he traverses the countryside, a figure as lean and dangerous as the bowie knife he carries on his hip. When the two wanderers attend a fundamentalist camp meeting, George joins the screaming sinners who gather at the preacher's feet. The next morning the preacher is found hacked to death and Milo has vanished. George pushes on to a new town and eventually to a new home. But he knows that...