Word: ole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIKAR OLE SEREMON Monduli, British East Africa...
...night block party. Shirtsleeved crowds jostled down Canal Street, as the motorcade crawled across the balmy night - through the French Quarter and on toward St. Louis Cathedral. At the head of the parade, invited but unexpected, rode Louisiana's Governor Earl Long in his own convertible. Ole Earl, less than a year away from his revolving-door visits to a clutch of psychiatrists, beat time with his straw hat when he could hear the band. On the reviewing stand he showed up once more to chat with the visitor, once grabbed De Gaulle unceremoniously by the lapels - "something...
...civic luncheon next day Ole Earl was back again, slipped into a chair next to De Gaulle and began to jaw into his ear. De Gaulle turned away and appeared to hear nothing. Miffed, Ole Earl stalked off, later left the hall in the midst of the ceremonies. De Gaulle noted during his polite speech of thanks that "the honorable Governor has unhappily left us before the end of lunch." When the house roared, De Gaulle seemed surprised...
Channel Flights. Loudon's visas add up to a record of accomplishment. In Venezuela, where he was once the Group's manager, he is credited with persuading the company to become one of the first (along with Créole Petróleum) to adopt the new fifty-fifty profit plan later adopted by the entire oil industry. In Iran, he helped head the international consortium in negotiations in 1954 after Premier Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry. Generally, Loudon prefers to leave most of the on-the-spot negotiating to local managers. Says he: "By comparison, they...
...voters elected Guitarist-Composer James H. (You Are My Sunshine) Davis, 59, as their Governor for the next four years. But no sooner were the returns in than rumbles were heard from the direction of outgoing Governor Earl Kemp Long, 64. With some $7,500 in leftover "campaign contributions," Ole Earl has scheduled a statewide TV speech for May 8, two days before Democrat Davis takes office. Said Long: "Ah'll tell the people of things to come-and things not to come." Probable translation: barred by law from succeeding himself this time, Ole Earl expects...