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...more distant searches and deeper drilling with more sophisticated equipment-have shut out most of the old breed of independent operators. A few independents, however, are still rich and ready enough for global competition with the major companies-and one of the richest and readiest is a stocky, straightforward Texan named John Whitfield Mecom. At 53, Mecom has amassed assets of between $400 million and $500 million, reaped largely from 30 years of roaming the world in search of oil. Last week, on yet another search, he started drilling in Jordan, one of the few Arab nations where...
...ballboy could tell that American tennis fortunes were certainly looking up. Why, any one of three Yanks had a good shot at Wimbledon last week. First there was the defending champion: chunky Chuck McKinley, 23, the acrobatic Texan who breezed to victory in 1963 without even losing a set. Then came Frank Froehling, 22, a finalist in last summer's U.S. championships at Forest Hills. And finally there was Dennis Ralston, 21, who teamed with McKinley just last December to beat Australia for the Davis...
...claim to fame is his effective hostility to the foreign-aid program. Always in the past Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. But Cannon died last May and was succeeded by Texas Democrat George Mahon. At the urging of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, Mahon persuaded the subcommittee to turn down Passman's demands for meat-ax foreign-aid cuts...
Lyndon Baines Johnson-LL.D. A native Texan who has remained in private life and in public career a devoted Texan, without boast and without apology...
...mining and marketing; mines in Sierra Leone and Liberia have increased production. For the first time in 56 years, De Beers has reopened its big Old De Beers mine, using modern equipment to extract stones that once were thought uneconomic to mine. It has also helped to bankroll a Texan named Sammy Collins (TIME, Nov. 9, 1962), who is digging diamonds from under the sea off the coast of southwest Africa. But no dealer fears that production will ever rise high enough to hold down prices or remove any of the glitter from a girl's-and a dealer...