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...like to leave," he growled last week, "the answer is 'Hell, no.' " Softer-spoken North Dakotan Haider, a Stanford graduate ('27) in chemical engineering, is a research and exploration expert; among other Jersey jobs, he brought in Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 in Alberta, the find that started western Canada's oil boom in 1947. Despite their different backgrounds, Haider (whose salary will soon match Rathbone's $293,000) will run giant Jersey in much the same fashion as Rathbone. His chief responsibility will be chairing the daily executive committee meetings and weekly...
...south where oil had already been found (see map), brought in three wildcat wells near Lesser Slave Lake in a previously untapped rock formation that was the same as that at Great Slave Lake. The discovery touched off Canada's biggest oil play since the great Leduc and Pembina oilfields were tapped...
...hard-rock diamond-driller, drifted to Alberta and formed his own drilling company there before the province's oil play began. He took an option on a promising piece of Alberta land and brought in one of the province's first major oil wells at Leduc in 1947. Since then, he has plowed his oil earnings into a steadily successful search for more oil and gas. His companies now own or control hundreds of wells, hold leases on some of the richest oil lands in Alberta and British Columbia; McMahon's petroleum empire is estimated...
...York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb...
...Ozias Leduc is a Quebec brother to Philadelphia's late Thomas Eakins. His Madame Lebrun, painted in 1899, has the same passionate sobriety that made Eakins great. Both men began with Rembrandt, but neither knuckled under to the old master. They were as true to their age and hemisphere as Rembrandt had been to his. To portraitists of such quality, models are not only flesh and bones in a chair but also thoughts and feelings in the air. Madame Lebrun's sad, narrow gaze-as much as her elegant blouse and the stiffness of her spine-is forever...