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...state's first permanent settlers is no longer fertile. Farmers are fleeing to the big cities, their lands taken over by a few big cattle operators who strip the fields, turn it back into pasture, graze huge herds. This is where such oil millionaires as H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson and the Murchisons hit big money in the 1930s. And it is where the "whipstock," a curving drill stem that steals oil from other wells, was long king...
...extremely helpful men after passing his bar exam in 1938. He became Representative Lyndon Johnson's congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy under Jack Kennedy...
...Crimson's Sid Marland placed fifth behind Ohiri in the broad jump and Don Forte took second in the non-invitational pole vault. Freshman Tom Choquette captured fifth in the shot...
...broad jump and high jump should provide the Crimson with a good number of points. Awori, Chris Ohiri, and Sid Marland could easily sweep the broad jump, and Chris Pardee, University record holder in the high jump (6-8), should top that event...
...weeks, and has now been metamorphosed into a Frank Sinatra movie. Last year, commissioned by Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin to turn Patrick Dennis' Little Me into a musical, Simon got a brainflash, wrote all seven of the major male roles for Sid Caesar, creating one of the season's better box-office draws...