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Chief Executive Milligan, 63, has been correcting the imbalances. In the last five years, Pure Oil has spent $230 million searching for oil from Beirut to Brisbane, has increased production 17%. Last year it brought in about two-thirds of the 137 wells it drilled...
...expect 1964 to be a difficult year," admitted Pure Oil Co. President Robert L. Milligan recently. He was more prescient than he suspected. Last week Pure Oil's board faced the difficult question of what to do about an attempt by a group of celebrated outsiders to buy the 50-year-old company for a walloping $700 million. Milligan and his managers are understandably apprehensive. The mechanics of the transaction are intricate, and how many of Pure Oil's present managers would stay on is uncertain...
...class comics, Nym and Bardolph are in the capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
Electric Clouds. This charade has been convulsing London audiences for three months. Its co-authors are Actor-Writers John Antrobus and Terence A.P.S. ("Spike") Milligan. Spike climbed Mount Everest from the inside on BBC radio's Goon Show. He also appeared in The Running, Jumping, and Standing Still Film, the craziest movie short ever made...
Antrobus, educated at Sandhurst, is the sensible partner who takes on the practical problems of the production, such as settling with the unions the question of whether the parrot is an actor or a prop. Milligan, a 45-year-old Irishman born in India, has his head in electric clouds. "It's the end of the bike," he glooms. "Fin de cycle." He has lots of other ideas about life after World War III-selling plots of sea, for example, because land is so expensive. The phone rings on his desk -and rings and rings and rings...