Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked...
...origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention, he says, noting that "there's a lot of oil under Biafra," and that the oil might have something to do with English support for the Nigerians, and the French money and mercenaries aiding Biafra...
...after a few beers, tells with relish a story of how he convinced a Chinese chieftain in a Viet Minh controlled village to sell 1200 pigs to the French army. The chief, he concludes, wanted to keep things quiet, and a few extra silver bars--"oil money," he says, rubbing his fingers--"didn't hurt either...
Died. B. Brewster Jennings, 70, president and chief executive from 1944 to 1958 of Mobil Oil Corp.; after a short illness; in Manhattan. Born to wealth and oil (his maternal and paternal grandfathers were among John D. Rockefeller's early partners), Jennings spent his entire working life at Mobil. Under his command, what was once primarily a marketing outfit became one of the world's greatest oil producers, with fields and refineries on five continents bringing in revenues that came to $5.9 billion last year...
...series of complicated major and minor leagues designed to involve every child under eighteen in the most noisy and enthusiastic if not the best musical enterprise in the city. To keep the mothers happy he has carved a series of tot lots out of vacant back-yards and old oil dumps, and to keep himself happy (and elected) he has established the Al Vellucci Associates who meet periodically to honor him at dinner...