Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first post-Reconstruction G.O.P. Senator largely as a result of feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen?one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush?bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...
...tells. He has just sold, for about $1,000,000, a cattle ranch in Nevada and published a new book, Unknown Oman. Last week, after a brief cruise in the Greek Isles, he flew to New York on the spur of the moment, went to Texas to dine with Oilman John Mecom, continued on to San Francisco and Honolulu. Next, he contemplates going to Viet Nam, where he is an accredited war correspondent for Scripps-Howard...
Died. Louis Marron, 67, dean of U.S. big game fishermen, a burly Florida oilman, who in 1953 off the coast of Chile boated a 1,182-lb. broadbill swordfish, at the time the biggest game fish of any kind to be landed on rod and reel and still tops for a species widely regarded as the strongest and most difficult; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...When Oilman John Mecom bought the Houston Chronicle six months ago in a package deal that included other, more valuable properties, his friends revived the old joke that his wife had simply asked him to pick up a paper on the way home. Mecom has that kind of reputation. Right up with H. L. Hunt and J. Paul Getty among Texas' biggest independent oil producers, Mecom has added to his rich oil empire by picking up fish-meal plants, a drugstore, ranches, and other assorted enterprises from here and there. He had never tried a paper before, and last...
Perhaps Greek Shipowner-Financier-Oilman Aristotle Onassis, 59, has found his greatest métier. At Paris' Orly Airport last week, he snipped a ceremonial ribbon at the boarding ramp of the blue and white Boeing 707 jet inaugurating the transatlantic service of his Olympic Airways. He even bore gifts for the 140 passengers-key rings for the men, Dior perfume and pins for the women. And the next morning, as the jet returned from New York, "Ari" the airman again formed a one-man welcoming committee. "Onassis follows the move ments of his tankers from his yacht...