Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal interests. Both are ardent anglers, and Milton, who trolls for walleyed pike in Wisconsin's Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge, but Milton, who has never progressed beyond the Culbertson quick...
...Trieste proves the case for a 12,000-ft. sub, its design may be strange. Since only the crew and controls need protection from pressure, all the power and ordnance equipment of such a sub could ride "outside" them in an outer hull filled with oil. Like the thin steel of the bathyscaphe's gasoline float, which feels no appreciable pressure, the sub's outer hull need not be thick and pressurized. It could be made of lightweight aluminum or lithium for greater speed...
...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...
...Oil production for September was hiked to a twelve-day schedule by the Texas Railroad Commission, the third straight monthly increase in allowables since the eight-day month in June...
Married. Ann Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...