Word: texan
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Died. Robert J. Kleberg Jr., 78, baronial Texan cattleman; of stomach cancer; in Houston. As president of the family-owned King Ranch Inc., Kleberg managed 12 million acres of land on four continents, an area larger than Belgium. Over four decades, he used the rich oil and gas revenues of King Ranch's Texas spread (roughly the size of Rhode Island) to subsidize his first love, ranching, and his hobby, racing horses (among them Assault, 1946 Triple Crown winner). When drought threatened the King herds in 1917, Kleberg painstakingly began breeding Indian Brahman bulls with Texas shorthorns to produce...
...delivered during a private meeting and never put in writing. With good reason. The real charges according to Spurr: he had cut back on the lavish cocktail parties the university threw for wealthy contributors before football games; he had not cracked down on the student paper, The Daily Texan, which treats the regents with a notable lack of respect; he had refused to admit into the law school regents friends who were unqualified; he had started a minority recruitment program, which the regents did not want...
Within hours after a jury was selected and sequestered in the Watergate conspiracy trial last week, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski submitted his resignation. During the eleven-month tenure of the courtly, mild-mannered Texan, 14 major Watergate defendants, twelve corporations and 17 corporate executives had been indicted or pleaded guilty. Jaworski's dogged pursuit of Richard Nixon's White House tapes had led to a unanimous Supreme Court decision in the prosecutor's favor and, because of the contents of those tapes, finally to Nixon's resignation...
...Paul Newman as a rich, arrogant Texan. With Oscar-winning performances from Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. Ch. 7, 11:45 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Ironically, the sponsor of that controversial bill is Lyndon Johnson's former friend and fellow Texan, Representative Jim Wright. Sympathetic to the billboard lobby, Wright has proposed several "beautification" amendments to the 1974 Highway Construction Act that take the teeth out of earlier legislation. The 1965 law prohibited signs within 660 feet of the right of way. Advertisers responded nimbly by placing jumbo signs just beyond the 660-ft. limit; they were even more unsightly than the smaller signs adjacent to the road. To counter this violation of the spirit of the law, the Senate Public Works Committee recently...