Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLAUDE S. BRINEGAR, 45, a California oilman, could turn out to be Nixon's most controversial Cabinet appointment. He takes over as Secretary of Transportation from John Volpe, who has been named Ambassador to Italy. While the Administration has supported the diversion to mass transit of funds earmarked for highway building, Nixon has chosen a man whose company, Union Oil Co. of California, stands foursquare against such a shift. In 1970 the firm spent $20,000 to help defeat a California proposition that would have switched some gasoline-tax money to public transportation. Union Oil was also responsible...
Bleak Memories. Shula and his deadly Dolphins are the wildest thing to hit Miami since Nick the Greek and a team of shills took Oilman Harry Sinclair for $900,000 at a memorable craps party. Car bumpers are plastered with "I Am a Dol-Fan" stickers; "Dial-a-Dolphin" programs are stealing the play away from local disk jockeys. Raving fans pack the Orange Bowl (capacity: 80,010) to wave white handkerchiefs at their rugged young superteam. The reason is simple: more than anything Miami loves a winner, and Shula's Dolphins are the biggest winners in pro football...
...Oilman J. Paul Getty...
...they tramp the West Virginia hills: the gangling 6-ft. 6-in. man (who gulps three burgers and three Cokes at a sitting), his uncomfortable six-months-pregnant wife, and occasionally his little sister. But the man is John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 35, great-grandson of the Standard Oilman, Democratic nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Wife Sharon, 27, is the attractive daughter of Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Sister Alida Rockefeller recently graduated from Stanford...
...That ceiling was 500 years old," the German ambassador defensively informs a shocked Cabinet back in Washington. The Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...