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...ceremony: the opening of the first privately financed U.S. plant to make gasoline in quantity from a solid hydrocarbon. The place: American Gilsonite Co.'s new $14 million refinery outside Grand Junction, Colo. There, as Colorado's Steven L. R. McNichols and Utah's George Dewey Clyde each pulled a handle, water gushed from a pipeline, turned black with particles of Gilsonite...
...Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian Reporters William Lambert and Wallace Turner to the story...
...that time, the distinguished University astronomer predicted a trans-Neptunian planet from perturbations he had noted in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. Working from Lowell's reckonings, Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930 discovered Pluto...
...Story. In Las Vegas, Nev.. Salesman Clyde Ashby was acquitted of charges of fishing in Lake Mead without a license when he protested that he was only trying to fish out a fishing rod lost in the lake...
This week the McClellan committee planned to hear Jim Elkins' tape recordings and to take testimony from District Attorney William Langley and Teamsters' Bosses Clyde Crosby and Frank Brewster. Sure to be questioned soon is Teamsters' International President Dave Beck, who abruptly returned this week from Europe, after Labor Secretary James Mitchell had canceled Beck's nomination as U.S. delegate to an International Labor Organization meeting in West Germany...