Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign runners are traditionally superior in distance races, but victories by 19-year-old University of Oregon Freshman Dyrol Burleson at 1,500 meters (3:47.5),Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger at 5,000 meters (14:47.6), and little (5ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.) Max Truex at 10,000 meters (31:22.4) gave the U.S. high hopes for next year...
...richest plum among the oil industry's independents finally fell last week, and it went to one of the strongest integrated majors. In an $810 million deal, Texaco, No. 2 U.S. producer-No. 1: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)-and refiner, bought California's profitable Superior Oil Co., whose earnings last year totaled $39.20 a share. Superior stockholders will get 24 shares of Texaco for each share they now hold; Texaco will then absorb Superior's holdings and dissolve the company...
...interest in Saudi Arabia's Arabian American Oil Co., a 7% interest in the Iranian consortium, and a 50% interest in Caltex operations in Sumatra and elsewhere. To back them up, Texaco bought Trinidad Oil Co. Ltd. in 1956, last year added Seaboard Oil Co. Now with Superior, it gets big production in Venezuela's rich Maracaibo field, crude-oil reserves of well over 300 million bbl., plus excellent drilling prospects in Texas and Louisiana...
From the bench of Georgia's Fulton County superior court, Judge Durwood T. Pye keeps a hot eye on the Atlanta press. Last November, during a civil hearing, Judge Pye barred news photographers not only from the courthouse but from "adjacent sidewalks and streets" (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week Atlanta's two associated papers, the Constitution and the Journal, faced a far stiffer rap from Pye: a $20,000 fine for contempt of court...
...Bunting's present title is actually Dean of Douglass College. Douglass is an all-women's institution, operating within the general framework of Rutgers University. Mrs. Bunting, as Dean, is the highest official concerned exclusively with Douglass, her immediate superior being the President of Rutgers University...