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Last week 65-year-old Victor Ziegler announced that he was selling out to a group of independent oilmen through Dallas' Title Investment Co. and the Nino Oil Co. The price: about $20 million. Though Ziegler himself has had to sell most of his own holdings to pay for the leases, he and his family will get more than $5,000,000 from the Bonanza deal. The buyers will get ten wells, now producing 3,000 barrels a day, and reserves estimated at upwards of 100 million barrels. Oilmen agree that the Worland field has about five times more...
Thirty-four canvases, submitted by some of Italy's best painters, ranged from complicated abstractions of Esso's big Italian refineries to rural landscapes dotted with Esso signs. Nino Caffe, who paints nothing but pictures of priests (TIME, Feb. 5), turned in one of two black-robed clerics scurrying past an Esso station...
...white and black-especially black-are the favorite colors of Nino Caffé. But for a long time, working away at still lifes, landscapes and portraits, he had small chance to use them. Then one day Caffé looked out of his window in Urbino and saw young black-frocked Italian seminarians roughhousing in a courtyard. He has concentrated ever since on painting Italy's young priests...
...been in office almost four months (as successor to the late President Diaz Arosemena) and seemed a bit relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up the Supreme Court, and at 6 a.m. handsome, square-jawed Vice President Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 44, was sworn in as Chanis' successor. Within an hour he received the traditional loyalty oath from his second cousin, Police Chief...
Among those who ascended to the starting point high above the village was a local boy, a sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...