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EARLY last Thursday morning, explosives planted in three buildings in midtown New York City seriously damaged the offices of General Telephone and Electronics, IBM, and Mobil Oil. The explosion at IBM was so extensive that 600 employees had to report elsewhere for work on Thursday, and the damage at Mobil forced its office to close...
...blowouts. Moreover, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel recently approved a resumption of drilling in the channel. Reason: a special presidential panel recommended further drilling to relieve the pressure that pushed the oil to the surface. While some critics dispute this approach, a consortium of four oil companies (Union, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco), soon to be joined by Sun Oil, continues to pump 30,000 barrels of oil a day from the waters off Santa Barbara...
...second largest producer is Gulf Oil, which is producing 200,000 bbl. a day offshore. Mobil, Italy's AGIP, Texaco and Standard of California are moving rapidly to begin producing early this year. Most offshore operators anchor a ship next to their rigs to provide living quarters for the crew, equipment storage space and a helicopter...
...they replace are both lawyers. The other three Fellows-like most Corporation members since the 1780's-are also business and professional men: Albert L. Nickerson '33 is a retired executive of Mobil Oil; Francis H. Burr '35 is a lawyer with the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray; and Hugh D. Calkins '45 is a lawyer in Cleveland...
Scott treats blue-chip polluters as firmly as other prosecutors do the Mafia. His list of defendants facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined a number of other states and cities in a Federal Government suit against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other vehicle makers. Scott wants the Government to force the auto industry to install antismog devices on all cars and trucks dating back to 1953. In late November, charging that "the exhaust...