Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retiring No. 42, the blue and gold jersey worn by "the greatest athlete I've seen in ten years of coaching." No. 42 had been Jim Seymour, a gangling "big little boy" who was Shrine's version of Frank Merriwell. Son of a permissive, well-to-do oil-company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar to play folk songs on, and later the use of the family Pontiac (but not the Cadillac) to drive girl friends to the "sock hops" that Shrine staged on autumn Friday nights...
...does not always win such praise from O.K., as he signs his works. A far more personal statement is a recent oil, Saul and David, full of the swirl of clashing colors and impetuous brushstroke. Explains the painter: "I painted David next to the angry old man. The old man is biting his teeth because it's over." Then slapping his knee with vigor, Kokoschka adds, "He is furious at being...
...impoverished and riotous Middle East, prospers not only by trade but as a money market. In less than two decades, its bustling capital of Beirut has grown into the world's newest financial center, the shrewd regional banker to everybody from wealthy Arab sheiks to huge U.S. oil companies. Last week, in a crisis that shook the country's fiscal structure to the bottom of its vaults, Lebanon was forced to shut its 93 banks for three days...
...Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik to assure him that his hoard was really intact and safe with Intra...
...contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize of $10,000 and a bundle of fringe benefits that includes everything but an oil well...