Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain-talking Texan who has spent years poking around the innards of high-compression engines, Carroll Shelby, 43, can get pretty tense. Whenever he thinks about Enzo Ferrari, which is often, he also thinks about the annual 24-hour Le Mans race-and what happens to his blood pressure then is not good for a man who has a bad heart...
India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
...designer to watch was Ken Scott, 41-year-old expatriate Texan who lives in Milan. For strolls by the sea, he suggested a silk T shirt, Bermuda shorts and knee-sock ensemble in a Japanese print. His silk-jersey print dress with a short, short skirt and flowing sleeves had one American fashion writer predicting that it will become "the new status dress...
...news to the Princess' husband. "I have learned," the President said on his 31st wedding anniversary, "that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she is having her own way. And second, let her have it." Whereupon the tall Texan paired with the little (5 ft. 1 in.) Princess and Tony led Lady Bird as the band played Everything's Coming Up Roses. Nearly everyone danced with Meg. Tony danced most of the numbers, including the discotheque type meant for the Luci-Lynda generation. Hubert Humphrey, naturally...
...became a full-fledged agency of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1947 with the ostensible aim of bringing Christianity to bear on everyday life-the family, daily work, citizenship, race relations. It remained an organizational starveling until Foy Valentine became its executive secretary five years ago. A scholarly, witty Texan of 42, Baptist Preacher Valentine now runs a staff of three men and two secretaries, from a well-appointed office in the headquarters building of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. On a budget of $90,000, he supplies written materials to local congregations, conducts conferences and discussion groups...