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BRUNSWICK, ME., Summer Playhouse: 110 in the Shade's non-rainmaking rainmaker fits right in with the Northeast's drought...
...cities may drink from the sea, it may at least ensure that Johnson's Great Society will not be dry. As it happened, the President had the bill ready to sign during a White House "water emergency conference" to survey the immediate and long-term problems of the drought-stricken Northeast Addressing Governors, mayors and others from the region, Johnson said that the nation has "lingered too long under the impression that desalting sea water is a far-out and a far-distant goal," announced his determination "to make the great breakthrough before 1970." The Administration's target...
Registration is still more than a month away, but the midsummer drought is over for at least one section of the Harvard underworld--the well-hidden, but by no means small group that thrives on magazine articles about college students...
Frustrating Drought. Marathon's rise to worldly wealth and power has been so recent that few outside the Midwest have ever heard of the company. It owns 9,000 wells and has interests in 11,000 others around the globe, spends a large part of its capital expansion and exploration budget-which averages $100 million annually-looking for more. It owns refineries in Spain and Germany, has a 7% stake in the Trans-Alpine pipeline. Its big red "M" flies over 3,800 gas stations in six states and nearly 700 more in Europe. Last year all these operations...
Cash for Complaints. The drought ended dramatically in 1958 when the Oasis Oil Co., which Marathon owns jointly with Continental Oil and Amerada Petroleum, hit the Dahra field in Libya. "That success alone," says Donnell, "more than justified the decision to venture abroad." The find has in creased Donnell's proven reserves by more than 100% (to 1.7 billion bbl.) and expanded his production by 150,000 bbl. per day. With that, Donnell moved into high gear. He acquired four more refineries and hundreds of gas stations by taking over Michigan's Aurora Gasoline Co. and Texas...