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...again, Houston's Humble Oil & Refining Co. sent heavily publicized "Tiger Teams" to 300 campuses, managed to fill a record quota of 825 jobs. But Ford deployed 340 recruiters to find 2,000 new graduates, figures to wind up with only 1,500 or so. Chicago's Inland Steel sweetened its 1966 salaries by as much as 8%, still fell so short of engineers that it began scouring Canadian campuses. Illinois Bell Telephone recruiters confess that "we even hired a theology student last month. He is going into public relations or the commercial...
Earlier Western European lines spread out from North Sea ports over relatively hospitable terrain, following the movement of refineries to fast-growing inland markets, which cannot be supplied by costly, inadequate rail transport. So strong is the demand for oil now that even the expense of crossing the Alps is no longer an economic obstacle. Though T.A.L. cost its owners, a consortium of 13 oil companies led by Esso and Shell, an average $500,000 a mile, its Trieste terminal, where the first tanker put in from Kuwait last week, is advantageously close to Mideast and North African oil sources...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Captain and Mrs. Irving Johnson con their 50-ft. ketch through the inland waterways of France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in "Yankee Sails Across Europe...
...scheme was downright startling. Concluding that the only long-term solution to the city's port problem was to look for space elsewhere, he got the backing of 170 leading Genoese businessmen, built a new landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked to the sea by its own railroad and highways, the new facility is designed to ease pressure on the existing port. The way it works, incoming cargo is unloaded in Genoa directly onto freight cars or trucks, then whisked to Rivalta Scrivia for customs clearance, sorting and warehousing...
...Tasmania is an Australian state more or less renowned as the home of Errol Flynn and the Tasmanian wolf. Beyond that, it serves mainland Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought Tasmania some unwanted renown: the most disastrous fire in Australian history...