Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationality other than British or Dutch. He will fill a vacancy to be created by the retirement on July 1 of Senior Managing Director John H. Loudon (TIME cover, May 9, 1960). The top job, however, will remain in traditional hands: succeeding Loudon, 59, will be another Dutch oilman, Managing Director Luitzen Brouwer, 54. Spaght will in herit one of Loudon's titles: chairman of U.S. Shell. To take over the American firm as Spaght's successor, Shell named Richard C. McCurdy, 56, an Iowa-born mining engineer who worked up from oilfield roustabout to Shell boss...
With their sharklike snouts and flat fannies, the homemade Chaparrals of Oilman Jim Hall, 28, would not win any automotive beauty contests. Their Chevrolet engines put out 450 h.p. compared with 385 h.p. for the Fords and 350 for the Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...
...reaction of University President Clark Kerr was slower. Two regents from Los Angeles, Board Chairman Edward Carter and Oilman Edwin Pauley, telephoned him and told him that the student offenders must be disciplined by the university too. Kerr agreed that discipline was due, but hesitated. Since last December's student uprising, it has become customary at Cal to let civil courts handle students involved in violations of the law. Kerr feared that adding a university punishment would be taken as breaking an understanding with the thousands of students who had crusaded against such "double jeopardy." He foresaw a renewal...
Cherub-faced Mike Haider is an oilman of a different stripe than his predecessor. Rathbone came up as a refinery man, was a tough administrator. "If you ask if I like to leave," he growled last week, "the answer is 'Hell, no.' " Softer-spoken North Dakotan Haider, a Stanford graduate ('27) in chemical engineering, is a research and exploration expert; among other Jersey jobs, he brought in Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 in Alberta, the find that started western Canada's oil boom in 1947. Despite their different backgrounds, Haider (whose salary will soon...
Presiding over this pleasure dome last week, Kublai Khan Mills was beginning to feel that everything was once again coming up roses. The Begum was using his Rolls-Royce, an oilman had borrowed his Bentley, and all seemed right with the world. The world, that is, of what Mills likes to call VIPIs (Very Important People Indeed). "I think we've made it," said Big John Mills. "Now where are we going to put the sauna...