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...market just waiting to be tapped," says Texan Jarrell McCracken. He can say that with a contented smile: at 35, he is president and chief stockholder of Word Records, Inc., the nation's largest producer of religious records...
...took charge last February after the company had lost a staggering $143 million in 1961. Lewis, a onetime Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1953-55), has tightened operations and tugged GD back into the black. On TFX he got some help from that charming, arm-twisting Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Pentagon insiders now refer...
...himself how to handle a rope, won the first of his five Rodeo Cowboys Association championships in 1955. With $26,656 of prize money won on the rodeo circuit so far this year, Oliver was recognized as king of the ropers everywhere but in Texas. Said one show-me Texan: "We been followin' Jim Bob's tracks through the brush for years. Don't try to sell us on no Idaho dirt farmer...
...Anchored off the wild, desert coast of South West Africa last week, an ungainly craft went about its unlikely work-sucking diamonds, along with tons of silt and rock, from the sea bottom. Barge 77, the world's only floating diamond mine, is the brainchild of Texan Sammy Collins, 48, a stocky, onetime oilfield roustabout who amassed a fortune in the exacting business of laying underwater pipeline. Intrigued by diamonds during an African engineering job, Collins went underseas prospecting in 1961 despite geologists' warnings that he was wasting his time and money, risked $6,000,000 to back...
Karl May connoisseurs (more often adults than children) are willing to endure anything for the performances, which manage to achieve innocent, papiermaché grandeur with a cast of 130 and a dozen horses. The German dialogue is speckled with Texan ("Well, greenhorn"), and the overture invariably includes such incongruous Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike. Even the summer rainstorms cannot stop the show. Said one fan, donning his slicker: "In the Old West they didn't stop struggling just because it rained...