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...president of Brown & Root, Inc., multimillion -dollar-a-year construction firm, and one of the country's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million; of a heart attack; in Houston. Brown & Root's most recent spectacular is a $30 million Mohole contract to drill into the earth's core, but Brown's greatest source of pride was a 1942 U.S. Navy contract to build and operate a shipyard, deliver a specified number of ships by a specified date. Brown & Root had never built a ship, but the company met its schedule...
...varsity football team postponed an attack on the turkeys long enough to go through a two hour drill in miserable weather yesterday morning...
Today's schedule includes a very light drill at 5 p.m. and an appearance at the rally. The team will then adjourn to a secluded motel to ensure an undisturbed night of sleep before the game...
...residents of Holmes Hall seemed relatively unconcerned with the brutal battles being waged throughout the rest of Radcliffe, for Holmes has not yet voted. "We will vote," said a student official, "as soon as we have a fire drill--and several other things--and not until then...
Cracking Oil. Autocratic by temperament, Mattei had no hesitation about making powerful enemies. He took on giant international oil companies, first in Italy, then abroad. He cracked their traditional 50-50 profits split with the oil-rich Middle East countries; by taking only 25%, he won concessions to drill in Iran, India, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia and the Sudan. Italy's business leaders fumed as Mattei, building an empire worth $2 billion, poached on more and more preserves of free enterprise. E.N.I. now owns motels, cafes, a newspaper (Milan's Il Giorno), an atom power plant and factories...