Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When an oilman named Cooper (Cyril Wheeler) planes into London with a case of smallpox, and some other seemingly unrelated cases develop, it becomes Terry-Thomas feverish chore to track down the carrier. In no time, several other plot strings become chronically entangled. Cooper's bride, Michele, played by a sensuous brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team...
...Bread. Kerr's tremendous influence in the Senate is the sum of many factors, not the least of which is his utter self-confidence. This in turn is nourished by the fact that he is the wealthiest man in the Senate. An oilman (Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.), he has a personal fortune of more than $35 million and owns or controls, through Kerr-McGee, about 25% of all known uranium reserves...
...asked a number'of church leaders if they felt that Christianity needed a new nondenominational magazine, not-so liberal as the old and prestigious Christian Century (circ. 37,500). Bell organized a committee of clerical sponsors, raised the capital funds from a number of millionaire Protestant laymen, including Oilman J. Howard Pew and Chairman Maxey Jarman of GENESCO, Inc., who still make up most of the magazine's annual $225,000 deficit. To edit the new magazine Graham's committee chose Baptist Professor Carl Henry, 49, of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He agreed to take...
...York and Texas oilman, Mosbacher started sailing at four, in a cat-rigged, flat-bottomed shell boat. "I used to think it was great fun to turn the boat over," he says, "until everybody stopped helping me right it again." At 17, Mosbacher won the junior championship of Long Island Sound, went on to sweep the International Class championships and just about everything else in sight. In 1958, the first time he ever handled a big, 12-meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials...
...like a father," say his workers. "I hate him," grimaces a competitor. "He is a statesman," purrs Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. The object of these vastly divergent judgments: wispy Sazo Idemitsu, 76, the Far East's fastest rising oilman and the prime pipeline through which Soviet Russia pumps its oil into the rapidly expanding Japanese market...