Word: texans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work to remedy the defects at hand; as editor of the campus paper, the Daily Texan, he crusaded against the state's sacrosanct oil-and-gas industry, berating it for taking too much out of the state and putting too little back in. In the uproar that ensued, complete with suppression of his editorials, Willie became something of a local celebrity...
...they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure in committee...
...East for a running mate, and that his gaze perhaps will fall on Rhode Island. But even where the vice-presidency is concerned, being from a small state can hurt. The man in the second spot is supposed to strengthen the ticket by assuring victory in his state, as Texan Lyndon Johnson did in 1960, and thus the bigger the state, the more statesmanlike the vice-presidential candidate...
...their client countries as well as the older nations that profess concern that their fate should largely reside in American and Soviet hands, the non-news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...will head the Europe-wide subsidiary is John S. Andrews, 53, a tall Texan who was general manager of Ford of Germany until he returned to Detroit as the parent company's European vice president in 1965. During seven years on the job in Germany, Andrews launched a period of growth that has seen Ford's share of the German auto market increase from 7% to 18%. In his new post, he will try to help Ford weather the effects of European recession. Last year the company's auto sales were off 12% in Britain...