Word: waco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLEYE WRIGHT Waco, Texas...
...Austin radio station KTBC and tele vision station KTBC-TV, which holds an area monopoly in one of the nation's largest cities with only one television station. Estimated value of the Johnson interest: $5,000,000. A 29% share of Waco's KWTX and KWTX-TV, operating in another lucralive market, plus KWTX's sizable holding in a radio station in Victoria and television stations in Bryan and Sherman...
...wife says he slept like a log.) After his wife had a miscarriage, he was afraid radiation might have affected his spermatozoa. He began to drink heavily and pass bad checks. In 1950, he made a halfhearted attempt at suicide and was admitted to the VA hospital in Waco, Texas...
...Baylor University he met Nancy Aynesworth, daughter of a prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle...
Stealing Oil. Among those changing worlds is the northeastern "Blacklands" area, which runs roughly south from the Oklahoma border through Dallas and Waco. There the once aristocratic cotton-plantation society has deteriorated. The gooey black clay that attracted some of the state's first permanent settlers is no longer fertile. Farmers are fleeing to the big cities, their lands taken over by a few big cattle operators who strip the fields, turn it back into pasture, graze huge herds. This is where such oil millionaires as H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson and the Murchisons hit big money...