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Double or Nothing. In Vancouver, B.C., Norman Pollard was chased by police for two miles at 80 m.p.h., dodged three shots before he was subdued, explained that he had been afraid he would lose his driver's license if arrested for speeding...
Atomic energy may soon successfully combat polio and other virus diseases, Professor Ernest C. Pollard, a Yale University physicist, recently announced. When atomic bullets are fired at viruses, antibodies, which are the defense mechanism of the human body, will be formed...
With high hopes, Allen Moye, 39, a hard-scrabbling cotton planter and hog raiser, gave rights to Humble Oil & Refining Co. to drill a wildcat well on his 100-acre farm, just five miles above the Florida line, near Pollard, Ala. He knew the odds were long even though Humble, one of the biggest wildcat gamblers in the U.S., was doing the drilling. For 18 days, Moye, his wife and four children watched as the Humble bits sank a full mile below the cotton fields without striking anything. Then, under the glare of the night lights...
...news last week, oilmen from five states made a beeline for Pollard, looked at their reflections in the pool of oil (see cut), and frantically began bidding for leases. Overnight, leases shot up from $2.50 a year per acre to as high as $50. On the New York Stock Exchange, St. Regis Paper Co., which owns some nearby land, became the heaviest-traded stock, gained more than two points. Gulf and Standard of Indiana, which own leases near by, got ready to sink wells of their own. "The well blew its top," said Alabama's state geologist, Dr. Walter...
...crusade with him. When the institute opened, it had 14 charter members willing to help support it, and gradually the number rose to 29. Through a central council and a board of directors these members manage the institute's affairs, share its Government-owned facilities. Says William Pollard: "We like the universities to feel that Oak Ridge is a part of their own campus...