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Food, flashlights and tools could be sent down to them. These sustained life-and sanity. But the passage that had been drilled was not nearly wide enough in diameter for a human body, no matter how emaciated, to pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the rescuers ran into endless, maddening failures. While families and friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts...
Finally, delicately, near the end of the eleventh day, the drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which parachute harnesses had been sewed. Fellin and Throne wordlessly put on the costumes, smeared each other with grease that had also been lowered to them. Throne went first, attaching his harness to a line from a hoist on the surface. A few minutes later Dave Fellin surfaced, bearded, grizzly...
...this operation," said he, "were removing pillars of coal left all these years to support a worked-out mine. Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about mining by getting himself in this predicament." These contentions made even more chilling the sound of another drill as rescue workers tried to reach Louis Bova-or his body...
Last week the subject was very much in the limelight as Y.P.F. signed a new contract with Oklahoma's Kerr McGee Oil to drill an additional 350 wells. Two days later, Argentina's electoral college chose a new President, Arturo Illia, who has vowed to annul all the oil contracts...
...years ago, President Adolfo Lopez Mateos sacked the politicians in control of Pemex and named a new boss: Pascual Gutierrez Roldan, 60, a successful Monterrey steelman. Gutierrez Roldan got rid of as many old pols and their pals as he could, reduced operating costs and used the money to drill new wells, build refineries and lay extensive pipelines. He then went after the foreign capital that he needed, hitting the money market at just the right time. Postwar reconstruction was well out of the way, and both European and U.S. banks were hunting new investments. Within six months Gutierrez Roldan...