Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, children pay $2.25, adults $2.75, all rides included. And since no self-respectin' Texan so much as pulls on a pair of boots unless they're air-conditioned, all the waiting areas for the Six Flags rides are bathed in curtains of cool air. Moreover, up in the native oak trees are 103 electric fans so powerful that if they were all dipped into the Gulf at the same time, they would drive Texas six feet into New Mexico...
Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...
...Bird Dogs. The Murchisons' victory on Allan Kirby's home grounds was dramatic notice of the changing role of Texas in the U.S. economy. Easterners still like to think of Texans as illiterate oil millionaires who wear ten-gallon hats-and, when they are in Wall Street looking for money, some Texans shrewdly play the expected part. Says Dallas Millionaire Trammell Crow: "I know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like...
...their Dallas headquarters, six executives known as "associates" keep a close watch over assigned portions of the Murchison empire, deciding the right time to buy, to sell, or to exert more control. The associates do not get large salaries, but they benefit from a friendly Murchison-and Texan-custom: helping friends to get rich by letting them in on deals. "We want our boys to make money," says John. "If one of them makes a million, we've made 10 million. Naturally, they need very little encouragement...
...Boeing 707 had barely rolled to a stop at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport last week when the tall, tanned Texan set to work. Looking straight across the welcoming red carpet at Thailand's tough little Premier Sarit Thanarat, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson declared: "We will honor our commitments for the cause of freedom. We will stand by our friends. We will not falter, Mr. Prime Minister. We will not fail...