Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian in Parma. At that low point, the board of education offered the job of superintendent to Paul Briggs. Son of a small-town baker, he had worked his way through Western Michigan University as a part-time pastry chef, taught in high schools for nine years before being named principal and then superintendent of the Bay City, Mich., schools. In 1957, Briggs was named superintendent of schools in Parma, Ohio, where he introduced one of the country's first closed-circuit educational TV networks and created a Russian language program that, he was able to boast, had more...
...companies fared remarkably well, despite the Middle East war in June. Increased reliance on supertankers and Western Hemisphere oil spared most producers any serious dislocations. Advances ranged from 9% to 18% for such companies as Continental Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Phillips Petroleum, Jersey Standard, Shell and Texaco. In keeping with the industry's buoyant mood, Atlantic Richfield Chairman Robert O. Anderson pointed to expected benefits from recent refinery modernization and predicted "continued earnings improvement during 1968" for his company...
...reached Paris in 1913 in purple morning coat and pith helmet, went on to hobnob with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the '20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils. He topped off his career in 1966 with a set of giant frescoes for a specially built chapel near Rheims, hoping cheerfully to "atone for 80 years of sins...
...third western, Leone went out and hired his first big-time actor, Eli Wallach. He plays Tuco, a Mexican gunman with so many prices on his head that he cashes them in by traveling from town to town with his partner Joe (Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden...
...which he co-stars with Richard Burton and plays an officer of the U.S. Rangers (unshaven and slit-eyed, of course) fighting Nazis in the Alps. That film will make him $500,000 or so. After that, he will take home $600,000 from Alan Jay Lerner's western musical, Paint Your Wagon...