Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby's own office is an almost shrinelike oasis of calm. On one wall hangs William Walton's impressionistic portrait of J.F.K., State of the Union. On another is an oil portrait entitled Before His Last Mission, showing Joe Jr., eldest of the Kennedy children, in flying togs just before his death in 1944, when an explosives-laden plane in which he was flying blew up over the English Channel. Opposite Bobby's desk, in stark contrast to the collection of his children's watercolors, are memorabilia of J.F.K.-whom he almost always calls "the President...
...wasn't as if Dad couldn't spare the dough. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73, might have settled the matter out of his petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established...
...been a dreary mission. As Welch tells it in the society's bulletin, he spent a good part of the summer going "from one city to another, where acrimonious disputes were raging among our members." Even worse, admitted Welch, "about all I usually accomplished, in trying to pour oil upon these troubled waters, was to get myself completely splattered with oil...
...entry into the city-building field reinforces a major trend of the '60s. By one recent count, there are now no fewer than 25 such "new towns" being built across the U.S. Humble Oil, largest U.S. subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), is building a new town for 140,000 people near Houston...
Their targets are mundane: trucks, trains, barges, bridges and an occasional hidden oil dump. One day last week, the Navy flyers who cover the northern half of the Panhandle spent most of their time working over a single locomotive and 40 boxcars. A-4 Skyhawks found the train in the morning, destroyed three boxcars, damaged 22 others, and reported a large secondary explosion that meant it was carrying ammunition or oil. About an hour later, more Skyhawks hit it with Bullpup missiles and bombs, knocked out the locomotive and four more freight cars, turned the track in front...