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Growing up on his family's 14-acre farm outside Beaufort, N.C., across the road from the local airport, Michael Smith fell in love with flying. When he was nine or ten, he built a large model airplane of wood and hung it in the yard to use as a swing. Later he earned money for flying lessons by selling chickens and eggs, and soloed in a single-engine Aeronca on his 16th birthday...
DIED. Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 83, tenth Duke of Beaufort and, from 1936 to 1978, Master of the Horse, third-ranking post in the royal household; after a heart attack; in Badminton, England. The Duke followed his pack of hounds for more than 70 years and once estimated that he had spent 4,000 days in the saddle pursuing foxes. He defended his passion by saying, "Hunting is the only thing that draws this country together-apart from...
...MYSTERY OF GEORGES SIMENON by Fenton Bresler Beaufort; 260 pages...
...finally starts working in mid-1984, it will help Arco, Sohio and nine other oil companies get more oil out of their North Slope wells. Water will be drawn into the plant at a rate of as much as 2.2 million bbl. a day, deoxygenated and heated from the Beaufort Sea's 28° to 40°. Then it will be pumped to another plant ten miles away, there to be heated to 80° and sent through a maze of 35 pipelines to injection wells in the oilfield...
...help push oil to the surface, its low oxygen content ensuring that microorganisms do not grow to inhibit the oil flow. Currently, the wells produce 1.5 million bbl. daily. The STP-processed water will guarantee that an additional 1 billion bbl. can be extracted from the sandstone beneath the Beaufort Sea before production slacks off in the 1990s...