Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh, the Cubs have Ernie Banks, and there's considerable evidence to prove that he's not enough. As for the defending National League Champions, their pitching staff can hardly repeat its 1961 performance. Oilman Joey Jay is out of shape, Bob Purkey isn't getting younger and Jim O'Tools was just lucky. The infield of Cardenas, Blasingame and Kasko looks sick...
...will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
...intellectual Boston, a lady of quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative. And Los Angeles, on the Pacific shore, is a fast-growing, outdoor girl-a lady with jet contrails ruffling her hair, celluloid coiled around her feet, and a reputation for capriciousness that she does not wholly...
With it into the icy waters, American One took Oilman W. Alton Jones, 70, an intimate friend of ex-President Eisenhower, who was on his way to California to join Ike on a fishing excursion, retired Admiral Richard L. Conolly, president of Long Island University and two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Film Producer (The Guns of Navarone) Irving Rubine, and Millionaire Realtor Arnold Kirkeby, former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels.† Ironically, 17 passengers had transferred to American One at the last moment, when a United Air Lines flight was canceled. So shattered were...
...svelte Australian challenger was still berthed at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, awaiting christening and preliminary sea trials. Sydney wags suggested the name Spectre, an unkind play on the Sceptre. Britain's roundly trounced 1958 challenger. But the syndicate of Down Under businessmen (a newspaper magnate, an oilman, a tobacco tycoon) who had shelled out $700,000 to build her were optimistic about her chances against the U.S. next September. Said Syndicate Chairman Sir Frank Packer: "The Americans have had the cup for so long that when they give it to us. it's going to leave...