Word: oilman
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...upwards of 3 min. in length. Straightforward accounts of Andrew Young's resignation and the Mexican oil spill may be followed by playful reports on a teen-age Soviet black marketeer ($100 for blue jeans, $200 for a new Kiss album) or an interview with Marxist Professor Bertell Oilman, who invented the board game Class Struggle. When interest rates soared last week, All Things Considered explained the event by staging a 10-min. mock Italian opera, Grosso Interesso, with professional singers, orchestral accompaniment and cunningly dubbed voices of real Government economic policymakers...
...production, if that is what the U.S. requests, and hard-line elements that want to hold down production and prop up prices. No oilman knows what the Saudis will...
Though the companies are only doing what is necessary to keep the oil flowing, their public-image difficulties are compounded by one economic fact that no oilman can explain away: for better or for worse, the Seven Sisters, and many of their smaller competitors as well, have interests that are often parallel to those of the price-gouging OPEC cartel...
DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January...
...Lewis may strike it rich with his latest gourmet grotesquerie: lollipops flavored with jalapeño peppers. So far, he has sold 5 million of them, at a nickel a pop. Oilman J.W. Bowen of Odessa, Texas, gave away 4,000 of the suckers at a convention. "It was a gimmick that really worked," says Bowen. Chevron Chemical Co. has ordered 1 million, with advertising slogans printed on the wrappers. Lewis already has plans to expand-into jalapeño ice cream this spring...