Word: roustabout
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...native of Houston, Duncan started out as a chemical engineer and roustabout for the Humble Oil and Refining Co. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he joined a family firm, the Duncan Coffee Co. (later Duncan Foods), and in 1958 became its president. Six years later, when the company was merged into Coca-Cola, Duncan moved to London as head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later...
Police estimate that 70% of the thefts are inside jobs. Says Houston Police Lieut. J.B. ("Bill") Bradley: "It goes right down to the roustabout in the field." Identification procedures are so lax that some firms wind up buying or renting back their own equipment through various "midnight" dealers. When it is sold, the stolen gear usually goes for bargain prices ?$500, say, for a high-pressure valve that costs $5,000. But some thieves with business savvy have been known to make really big money. In July, Houston's special "fence detail" arrested a middle-aged veteran salesman with...
...United Artists, took 14 years to get together and took off on a battered wing and a profane prayer. Movie rights to Ken Kesey's intricate, explosive 1962 novel had been owned by Kirk Douglas for well over a decade. Douglas had played the role of the roustabout McMurphy on Broadway, and wanted to make the movie himself. There were no backers. Prospective producers were put off by the requisite casting of Douglas (too old, they thought, for the part), turned off by the trying subject matter, mayhem in a mental ward. Finally, in 1972 Douglas turned the rights...
...hour, first-class machinists who got $3.50 last summer are getting $5.65 an hour, while stenographers have jumped from $400 to $705 a month. Lynda Armstrong, 31, abandoned her ambition to be a nightclub singer to earn $1,000 a month as an oil-patch roustabout. "I'm no women's libber," she says. "I just want to do it if I can and let them...
Died. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, former Governor of Arkansas and second youngest member of the Rockefeller brotherhood that includes Nelson, Governor of New York, and David, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually...