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...gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...
...conch shell wailed, the conga drums thump-thumped, the bamboo sticks clattered. The four men on stage were constantly on the move-clacking wooden blocks, scratching a corrugated gourd, flailing away at Chinese gongs, weaving rhythms that were insistent, sinuous and hypnotic. Occasionally, when the spirit moved them, they barked like seals or whooped like cranes. The happy audience at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel rattled the rafters whooping back...
...store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane Ltd. The solution Conch found was a double-hulled ocean tanker equipped with aluminum storage tanks insulated with balsa wood and encased in steel. Even with this kind of insulation, some methane did vaporize-just about enough, the engineers thriftily noted, to fuel the ship's boilers...
...seven trial runs, a Conch-designed methane tanker successfully hauled liquid gas from a plant at Lake Charles, La., to London, where it was pumped into special storage tanks and fed as a gas into the city mains. The British were delighted-they pay about $1.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. for homemade coal gas v. an estimated 90?for liquid methane. Last week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle...
Better than Texas. Eager to begin operations, Conch has already signed contracts with British shipbuilders for two 28,000-ton methane tankers worth $10 million each, is busily dickering for more frozen-gas customers in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. And even though the U.S. is liberally crossed with gas pipelines, several East Coast and Southern California utilities are studying the economics of using liquid methane to extend their fuel supplies when demand finally overtaxes the pipelines. Convinced that the British deal is only a beginning. Conch boasts: "We can deliver liquefied gas from Africa or Arabia to Japan...