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...past four weeks, the bleakness of the French Sahara 450 miles south of Algiers has been illuminated night and day by a billowing, 450-ft. torch of flame. Visible for 90 miles and roaring like a dozen jetliners at takeoff, the fire is consuming the riches of the recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field at the staggering rate of 30 million cu. ft. a day-enough gas to meet the average daily requirements of Tucson, Ariz...
Affluence in Red. Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fighters, set up his own company four years ago when Kinley retired. Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices, Asgar ("Boots") Hansen and Edward ("Coots'") Matthews, have tamed 50 wells in Bahrein, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often...
When the tongues of flame are in-folded...
...itself. The hero is the unknown soldier, alive. Little is given but his name (Gilbert Freeman), rank (second lieutenant) and serial number. But when the 155-mm. guns of his artillery unit redden the night "with their long barrels sliding, howling, slashing the black air with smears of flame," the war he lives through becomes altogether real. And what saves Mitchell Goodman's war from being just a long grisly metaphor is that, despite its absence of individual identification, he successfully turns it into drama...
...notion of business games was borrowed from the war games developed by the U.S. Naval War College, and has been fanned to a hot flame by the development of the digital computer. In the typical business game, from two to 20 players are assigned to a mythical company and given data on assets, production, prices, advertising, market conditions. Then they are let loose to make decisions in competition with other teams-and to make their firms grow...