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...less an official than Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas personally urged him to finish construction, saying: "It will work out." Next, a firm called Starboat & Weil, incorporated in Panama in November and having an Oslo address, offered to buy the boats for offshore-oil exploration. Starboat's incorporator was Ole Martin Siem, 53, much-respected president of Norway's largest shipbuilding firm, the Aker Group. The operating heads of Starboat, however, turned out to be Israelis who had ordered several commercial ships from Siem and had persuaded him to help them. The tall blond officers who showed...
...back to his roots in country music and still move his own music forward. De Ole Folks at Home, the companion disk to Giant Step, proves as much. The very title gives you pause: it promises an instant replay of an immense tradition. But some of the work he does in that tradition is original and versatile. In "A Little Soulful Tune" he fashions a complete. song with hands and voice alone...
...James Meredith succeeds in integrating Ole Miss...
...Died. Ole Singstad, 87, master tunnel builder; in Manhattan. Beginning with New York's Holland Tunnel in 1927, the Norwegian-born Singstad designed and built dozens of underwater highways, including New York's Lincoln and Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and the 1¾-mile Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. What made them all possible was his ingenious ventilation system, which sucks out deadly exhaust fumes with fans so efficiently that it has become standard the world over...
Mean Northeasterners. Recalling stereotypical apologies for the Ole South, Russell Baker admitted that it is "true, as the Nixon Republicans assert, that the Northeast is not representative of the U.S." But "even the meanest Northeasterner has nothing against the conservative who knows his place. Many Northeasterners, in fact, grew up in the care of conservative mammies. Many also had conservative daddies." What's more, he added, we "eat at the same table with them...