Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 hard for what he has and is fearful of losing...
...keeping up the pressure at Atlantic Richfield is Chairman Robert O. Anderson, 51, who says that his aim in the business is to be "not the biggest but the best." An oilman for nearly 30 years, Anderson sold his New Mexico-based Hondo Oil & Gas to Philadelphia's Atlantic Refining Co. in 1963 for $37 million worth of stock and a seat on the board of directors...
...GAME (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). NBC News explores the exciting, but expensive sport of art collecting. J. Paul Getty, one of the richest and most successful of all collectors, tells how the game is won-while Texas Oilman Algur Meadows, victim of one of the greatest art frauds in history, explains how easy it is to lose. Correspondents Edwin Newman and Aline Saarinen report from art centers in the U.S. and abroad...
...that of merged Japanese lines. The Federal Maritime Commission held that the merger would help the three U.S. companies by permitting several million dollars a year in savings through combined operations-without damaging rival U.S. ship operators. The arrangement would also give a new dimension to the career of Oilman Ralph K. Davies, 70, chairman of A.P.L., who controls all three of the merging lines through a complex of stockholdings...
...Billionaire's Row. But at an Anglo-American Sporting Club dinner in London in honor of Jack Dempsey, 72, Getty recalled that 44 years ago he and the then-champion had climbed into the ring together. "Jack is one of the real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary, Paul, I didn't pull my punches at all." With that, the two old hams squared...