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...charge still might have stuck had two officials not stood up for the accused teachers and the paper. Colorado's governor John Love said he deplored the teach-ins, but wondered whether "the possibility of a witch hunt" wasn't a greater danger. CU's President, Joseph Smiley, fired off a letter to Dodd demanding proof or a retraction...
When Hammer bought Occidental in 1957, the company was running just eight depleted wells. Now it pumps 4,000 bbls. daily out of 255 oil wells, produces 80 million cu. ft. of gas a day from another 112 wells. Occidental revenues have risen from under $1,000,000 in 1957 to about $190 million last year. Those shares for which Hammer paid 20? were quoted on the New York. Stock Exchange last week at $37.87. The net value of the corporation has risen from...
...great day, early last month, aboard British Petroleum's offshore drilling rig Sea Gem, anchored 42 miles off the coast of Britain in the North Sea. Flow tests of the natural-gas pocket discovered at the site showed a capacity of 10 million cu. ft. a day, enough to supply the fuel needs of a town of 300,000 people and to prompt Britain's Minister of Power, Frederick Lee, to recommend building an undersea pipeline (at some $250,000 per mile) to bring the gas to land by late 1967 or early...
...sounds of oncoming day filled Saigon's Nguyen Cu Trinh Street. Across from the eight-story Metropole Hotel, the third largest American en listed men's billet in the city, buses be gan lining up for the day's run to the beaches of Vung Tau. The sputter of three-wheeled cyclo-pousse taxis occasionally disturbed the gloomy quiet. An American MP, automatic shotgun cradled in the crook of his arm, and a white-uniformed Vietnamese national policeman neared the end of their guard duty outside the Metropole. Inside, 160 American servicemen lay sleeping...
...drill boring slowly into the sea floor beneath. Last week the punishing grind paid off: the rig's owner, Continental Oil Co. of England (a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Conoco), struck a promising, 64-ft.-thick pocket of natural gas that is yielding 3,600,000 cu...