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The oil companies that have flocked offshore have to drill down through as much as 300 ft. of water and 16,000 ft. of mud and shale. A single successful well costs as much as $3,000,000, about six times the cost of a similar dry-land operation. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: The Louisiana Splash | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

The Spanish sequence is an ode to the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Frasconi met in Montevideo in 1933, three years before Lorca was gunned down in the Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wizard of the Woodcut | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

The first half of the contest was a chilling, see-saw battle which saw the lead change hands 11 times. B.U. was big, fast, and alert on defense, ready to pounce on any Crimson miscues. But Harvard didn't make many mistakes. Paced by McClung, who scored 16 points in...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Crimson Quintet Bows to B.U., 77-66; Lack of Depth Spoils Bid for Upset | 12/9/1963 | See Source »

When Bob Cousy hung up his sneakers at the end of last season, pessimists predicted a dark future for the team he left behind. "Cooz" was the playmaker the spark plug, the bandy-legged magician who had led the Boston Celtics to five straight National Basketball Association championships. His ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Basketball: And Still Champions | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Advancing in Africa. With two close aides who also had been cronies of Mattei-Eugenio Cefis, 42, and Raffaelo Girotti, 45-Boldrini has bargained to buy low-cost crude oil for Italy from both Russia and the U.S.'s Jersey Standard, thus pursuing Mattei's policy of playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Gain & Pain at E.N.I. | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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