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Named by the President to succeed Connally as Navy Secretary was another Texan: Fred Korth, 52, a lawyer who is also president of Fort Worth's Continental National Bank. A lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command during World War II, Korth, too, is a longtime Johnson follower. He knows his way around the Pentagon: he was the Army's deputy counselor in 1951, later became an Assistant Secretary of the Army. In Fort Worth, his name is almost as well known as that of his family's longtime, locally beloved housekeeper and cook, Emma Victoria Elizabeth...
...largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts Control...
...spoken out" against any bishop of the church; my theology is much better than the condensed and out-of-context quotes at the end of the article would indicate; and never have I been a "Yankee-hater"-even though my mother's grandfather happens to have been a Texan...
...sums up the Texan of today by quoting British Journalist George Warrington Steevens' summary of the turn-of-the-century American: "He may make his mind easy about his country. It is a credit to him, and he is a credit to it. You may differ from him, you may laugh at him; but neither of these is the predominant emotion he inspires. Even while you differ or laugh, he is essentially the man with whom you are always wanting to shake hands...
...course of his tour of Asia last spring, Vice President Lyndon Johnson stopped on a Pakistani roadside to greet an impoverished, illiterate camel-cart driver who had a grin as wide as his handlebar mustache. A true Texan, the Vice President casually invited Bashir Ahmad to "come and see us, heah?" A Karachi columnist picked up the invitation and ran with it: "My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He'll stay at the Waldorf-Astoria." Almost before Johnson could say L.B.J., he realized that his invitation had been accepted, and he was stuck with it. Last week Bashir jetted into...