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...company is rich in reserves of what oilmen call "politically insensitive crude"-oil least subject to nationalization. It is among the largest developers of the two richest fields discovered in the past decade: in the North Sea and on Alaska's North Slope. Both should reach peak output around 1980. Exxon also owns most of a field off Santa Barbara, Calif., which holds reserves estimated as high as 1 billion bbl. but cannot be fully exploited until environmentalist objections are overcome. More oil surely lurks beneath the Gulf of Mexico. When the Government two months ago auctioned off drilling leases...
...devotees of deep-freeze fishing now at its seasonal peak, there is no other pastime quite like it. In the numbing months when outdoorsmen have little else to do, it is not only a rewarding sport-state and federal authorities estimate that ice anglers in the Northeast and Midwest catch at least as many fish each year as traditional fishermem-but a welcome weekend escape into a predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring...
...Prosser plan lies in using the institution's staff and facilities at off times. "Hospitals have peak periods when all of the personnel are at work," explains Hospital Administrator Larry Mclntyre, who developed the plan with the institution's chief of staff, Dr. Gustav Bansmer. "But there are other times when a lot of them are just standing around, so when we utilize that time there is no added cost." To take advantage of these slack periods, the hospital requires patients to make appointments in advance...
Barnaby said that MIT was only a "warm up" for the team's match against Princeton this Saturday, when the players should be at their "peak...
...timing was off on the passing and defense, and the squad was not yet back to peak game condition. But the offensive guns took care of the game as ten different players beat Ned Yetten...