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...even Petrobrás' operational boss is very happy with its showing. He is blunt, able U.S. Oil Geologist Walter Link, 56, once chief geologist for Standard Oil (N.J.), who was lured out of semi-retirement in 1955 by a tax-free salary of $100,000, plus the promise of a free hand. He has put together 15 crack geologic field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some...
...rich field 3,500 feet down in the Burgan sand at Wafra. Oil began flowing plentifully the next year, and production had doubled by 1956, when Getty made his second trip to the zone. He clambered over the rigs, walked tirelessly over the sands. A good practical geologist, he decided to drill in the neglected Eocene formation, down only 1,200 ft. Eocene oil can be pumped cheaper and faster than other oil ($30,000 and one week to drill a well, v. $200,000 and six weeks), is ideally suited for refining into heavy fuel oil. But oilmen laughed...
...parked beside Highway 87. Shoe Salesman Merle Collison, 37, had pulled off the road to sleep. Caril got into the back seat of Collison's car; Starkweather yanked open the driver's door and shot Collison nine times. Before he could drive off, another car pulled up. Geologist Joe Sprinkle, 40, thought there was an accident, stopped to help. Good Samaritan Sprinkle found a rifle at his head. He rushed the gun, grappled with Starkweather, got the rifle just as Deputy Sheriff William Romer happened by. Caril Fugate leaped out of the car and ran screaming...
...five years as president of the entity known as the State University of New York, Geologist William S. Carlson has done as well as any man could with what is probably the most frustrating job in U.S. education. His 42 assorted schools and divisions are scattered all over the state, and are mostly vocational institutions that are not supposed to intrude upon the work done by New York's private campuses. His trustees do not get along too well with the powerful state board of regents, and when Carlson released a report calling for a central campus to give...
Died. John Thoburn Williamson, 50, Canadian-born geologist, owner of the world's richest diamond mine (in Tanganyika), whose fortune was estimated at nearly $100 million; of cancer of the throat; in Mwadui, Tanganyika. Bachelor Williamson began diamond prospecting in South Africa in 1935, five years later struck a pipe eight times larger than South Africa's famed Kimberley Mine. Refusing to sell out to the De Beers cartel, Williamson nevertheless marketed his diamonds (average yearly output: $8,000,000 worth) through the syndicate, gave generously to African charities...