Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...errand boy had a phony ring to it [Feb. 23.] If the President has expanded the role of the Vice President, it must be classified information. About the only new addition to Lyndon's position is heading the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and, no doubt, the Texan must find outer space rather lonely and cold...
...when voting was well below normal. He ran in a campaign which fielded seventy-three candidates of which he was the lone Republican. In the run-off he faced Democratic William Blakeley who was probably even more conservative, though no one could really be sure. It was, as one Texan observed, "a choice between a McKinley man and a Neanderthal...
...McCormack evoked the spirit in the opening words of his acceptance speech: "Speaker Rayburn was not only a great man. He was a good man." For all of McCormack's days as Speaker, he will be pursued by the memory of his predecessor and dear friend, the little Texan who had presided over the House more than twice as long as any other man. The House had rarely given a Speaker such wholehearted trust and respect...
Named by the President to succeed Connally as Navy Secretary was another Texan: Fred Korth, 52, a lawyer who is also president of Fort Worth's Continental National Bank. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command during World War II, Korth, too, is a longtime Johnson follower. He knows his way around the Pentagon: he was the Army's deputy counselor in 1951, later became an Assistant Secretary of the Army. In Fort Worth, his name is almost as well known as that of his family's longtime, locally beloved housekeeper and cook, Emma Victoria Elizabeth...
...largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control...