Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure of autonomy and self-protection while still keeping them in the federation. But Gowon was unwilling to let the East maintain a separate army, finally brought the crisis to a head by decreeing a plan for twelve Nigerian states that would have cut the Ibos off from their oil and their coastline. Meanwhile, Ojukwu expelled Northerners from his region and built up his army. In the early hours of May 30, 1967, at a champagne reception in the regional capital of Enugu, he announced the creation of a new republic. Its name: Biafra, after the Bight of Biafra...
...theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters of the enjoyment. To suggest it, to evoke it -that is what charms the imagination." The art of suggestion, Vuillard discovered, required subtle materials; oil on canvas seemed too shiny and thick. He started painting on unprepared pasteboard, which absorbed some of the color. He also turned to pastels for sketching, and experimented with powdered colors. Success came early and easy, but it frightened him. "I must look out," he said. "Well-meaning patrons may disturb...
...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
...detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom (13 schools, straight A's, a degree in journalism from Louisiana State). He dabbled in acting before he broke into print three years ago with a brace of unsolicited interviews...
Died. Torkild Rieber, 86, chairman of Texaco from 1935 to 1940, and overseer of one of the greatest engineering feats in oil-industry history; in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming boss, Rieber bought the idle Barco oilfields, 1,200,000 acres deep in the jungles of Colombia, and during three years of collaboration with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., hacked a 263-mile pipeline over the Andes to service tankers on the country's Caribbean coast...