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Announced last week, Canada's record breaker took eight months to drill, augers down more than 12,000 ft. through a thick cap of Devonian rock. The gas-bearing section is 551 ft. thick, which indicates a reservoir of major proportions and almost an embarrassment of riches for Canada. Before the find, estimated Alberta natural gas reserves stood at 21 trillion cu. ft., which must now be revised upward. The new well alone could supply all the gas the new Trans-Canada pipeline can pump when it goes into operation late this year...
...Balloon Breaker. To last through this kind of performance five nights a week takes a talent spawned by radio, toughened by Hollywood and burnished by the demands of an unforgiving clutch of television cameras. No comedian in the U.S. can boast a more abundant supply of the necessary skills than Jack Paar. He has been practicing them almost all his life...
...background affluent, Eastern, Harvard; Haislip's poor, Midwestern, school of hard knocks. But it is Haislip's mistress who finally tells Billings even more than he wants to know: "You're a saver. Cautious and careful . . . Not Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry the day is a suspenseful question Author Brooks does not answer until Great Eastern's final...
...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...
...from Navy tanker planes. He finally landed at the Navy's Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with about 40 gallons-"enough," he reported, "to circle the field once." Promptly rewarded with his fourth Distinguished Flying Cross (he earned two D.F.C.s in World War II, another in Korea), Record-Breaker Glenn grinned: "Everything went smooth as silk...