Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Eugene Paul Getty II, 17, grandson of American Oilman J. Paul Getty; and Martine Zacher, 25, sultry German model-turned-photographer and expectant mother; he for the first time, she for the second; in Sovicille, Italy. The couple plan to film a documentary about the 1973 kidnaping that cost Getty his right ear before he was ransomed for $2.9 million...
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part...
...just returned from a two-week swing through five Western European countries. As the World editor does periodically, he visited TIME correspondents and met with leaders of European politics, business, the church and the press. He talked with, among many others, Italy's Prince Nicolo Pignatelli, the oilman who is president of Gulf Italiana; Spain's Vincente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón; France's Jean-François Revel, author and columnist for the weekly L'Express; and Britain's Roy Hattersley, Minister for European Affairs. "The changes in leadership all over the Continent...
...Tour d'Argent, a 515-page book about the restaurant to be published next month, Claude Terrail, its proprietor, makes clear that it is not quite the place for a Texas oilman in search of a sirloin and fries. Even Lyndon Johnson, then Vice President, was accorded a rather undistinguished table. Undaunted, he asked, "Don't you serve the same food at all the tables?" The food is indeed succulent anywhere on the premises, especially La Tour's famous leg of lamb Claude Terrail and pressed ducks-of which the restaurant has served 468,800 since proprietors...
...this has been the case. The New York Times reports that even very small operators are entering the industry. "The price of new oil is bringing about development like I've never seen before," said H.L. Sonny Brown in a Times article on March 10. Brown is an independent oilman who has just begun putting up his own rigs in Texas. "In 19 years I've never seen this area like it has been the past few months. Everybody wants to do things...