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...SEDCO, Inc. and is leased to Shell Oil for a five-hole exploration at an estimated cost of $11.5 million. So far, only one wildcatter on this portion of the shelf has found any oil, and that was only in small pockets. But Gil Baucheis, "tool pusher" or chief honcho aboard SEDCO's barge, points out that wildcatters drilled in the North Sea for ten years before striking huge reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Probing the Last Frontier | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...McKernon, Hell's-Angelic in his goatee and leather jacket, a very tough-looking honcho, pokes about the stage, beating a huge, glittering tambourine when the music calls for it. He looks neglected a lot of thetime; one Dead follower claims that McKernon seldom plays the keyboards anymore because of arthritis in his hands. But when the time comes for a Pigpen song, he's standing up to the microphone singing hard and well, and blowing strong blues-harp-solos...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Come Hear Uncle John's Band . . . | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

Born. To Lorne Greene, 52, honcho of TV's Bonanza, and Nancy Deale Greene, 34, onetime actress whom he married in 1961: their first child, a daughter (Greene has 23-year-old twins by his first wife); in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 19, 1968 | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Denison Kitchel, 56, a wispy, introverted, hard-of-hearing mining-industry lawyer seems as out of place as a Boy Scout on a bronco. Yet Kitchel served as Goldwater's pre-convention campaign manager and will undoubtedly continue to be, in Barry's own words, "my head honcho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Head Honchos | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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