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...Robin Van Norman drives a visitor into a verdant canyon sited down by U.S. Forest Service land in the Independence Mountains. Until gold was discovered, the Van Normans owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...
Experienced people are in such heavy demand that the large oil companies have serious difficulty keeping prized employees. Shell Oil is rumored to have lost some 100 geologists and geophysicists since the beginning of the year. McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. of New Orleans, for instance, has lured five scientists away from bigger firms since 1977 by offering them stock options of up to 30,000 shares each. The company's strong Wall Street performance has now made all five of them millionaires...
Died. Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran, 94, Winston Churchill's personal physician and confidant for 25 years; in Hampshire, England. Moran gave up his private practice in 1940 after members of the Cabinet persuaded him to care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family...
Lord Moran was, in fact, more than Churchill's doctor. From the time Sir Winston became Prime Minister of a besieged Britain in 1940 to the last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and companion. He traveled 140,000 miles with Churchill, watched him grapple with Stalin and Roosevelt, nursed him through pneumonia in the North African campaign and the series of strokes that punctuated and palsied his postwar comeback as Prime Minister...