Word: barrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner had Cavalier and the rest of the fleet left Seattle than Sparky Borgert, 62, who once sailed with Kardonsky, rattled off a corrugated iron runway at Point Barrow and began tracking the shifting ice from a small plane. As Crowley Maritime's "chief iceman," Borgert decides when to allow the convoy to sail through the floes: "We've got to have an avenue wide enough that we feel confident the barges won't get destroyed. Then we'll get 'em running like scared rabbits." Every day (and usually twice a day) for more than...
...suburban sprawl, etched in shades of caramel and cream, blue and black. Borgert peers down trying to gauge the ice's age, its strength and its intentions. "That blue ice," he chuckles, "that's harder than a whore's heart, boy." The shore ice floats past Barrow faster than a man can trot, and the pack can press ridges and hummocks 70 ft. high. Says he: "If you want to see something that scares the hell out of you, it's mobile ice moving at four or five knots and coming at you like...
When Thomas D. Barrow, 56, resigned as a senior vice president of Exxon in 1978 to become chairman of Kennecott Corp., the nation's largest copper company (1980 sales: $2.3 billion), he probably figured that his days in the oil business were over. But suddenly last week Barrow found himself back with another oil company. Standard Oil of Ohio made a successful bid to buy Kennecott for $1.8 billion in cash...
Kennecott, on the other hand, was quick to accept the Sohio bid; it needs the fresh cash to modernize its machinery and protect itself from the vicissitudes of the world copper market. As for Barrow, last week's agreement calls for him to stay on as head of Kennecott and thus return to the oil business as a director of Sohio...
...most of the efforts to help are genuine. A Brooklyn, N.Y., black newspaper, Big Red, is raising funds for the Atlanta police department. St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Mass., is urging members to pray and wear green ribbons, symbolizing life. The Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow, a Chicago mother and minister, helped organize a group of 200 women to travel to Atlanta to meet with parents "to find out how we can help." Says Barrow: "If everybody just prays, God can do anything...