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...million-a-year oilfield-equipment supplier called Houston Oilfield Material Co. back in 1962. Then Kenneally, an enterprising Minnesotan with an aristocratic manner and a flair for finance, became its president. Through a series of acquisitions, he quickly started transforming the company into a go-go builder of specialized agricultural and petroleum systems for Iron Curtain and Third World countries. By 1972 ISC was engaged in projects in 40 countries, and Kenneally was beginning to climb on the business jet-set circuit. Two years ago he and David Rockefeller, the Chase Manhattan Bank chief, were vice chairmen of the Iran...
...prime oddity in the whole snarl of attitudes is the fact that almost everybody develops perverse pride in abominable weather when it happens to be their own. Abroad, there are the desert tribes that profess to revere their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...
Proud! That's how I feel being a Minnesotan. Rod Carew [July 18] is one of the reasons...
...ground floor when the embargo is lifted-which virtually all consider certain to happen. But their Cuban hosts, cabled TIME Correspondent Chris Ogden, who traveled with the group, seemed doubtful at first. Over and over they asked their guests whether they really thought the embargo would end. Groaned one Minnesotan later: "How many times do you have to tell your wife you love...
Died. Elizabeth Ames, 99, longtime doyenne of Yaddo, one of the first U.S. artists' retreats; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A charming and commanding Minnesotan, she was enlisted to carry out the dream of Katrina Trask Peabody, to convert Yaddo, her 500-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, into a working haven for writers, musicians and artists. Mrs. Ames decreed that the 54-room Yaddo mansion must remain "a splendid private home, where a small 'house party' of friends may feel wholly at ease," and she ran it in that Jamesian way until 1969, keeping Yaddo short on rules...