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...hungry Australia spends more than $250 million a year to import petroleum, an outlay that hardly pleases its export-minded government. Alarmed by this drain, Australia began subsidizing oil exploration six years ago, has since spent more than $45 million sending drill and rig out across its vast uncharted continent, often to the amazement of its aborigines and the terror of its kangaroos. More than 100 companies and syndicates now hold permits to look for oil in Australia. Such firms as Union Oil of California, Shell, Texaco, Delhi-Taylor and Kern County Land have so far drilled more than...
...mining aristocracy. Unable to patch up their differences at the ruling M.N.R. party convention in January, Paz had himself nominated for another term as President, while Lechín was drummed out of the party. Then Lechín called a rump convention at which he tried to rig an anti-Paz alliance of Communists and disgruntled rightists. He vowed to "work for the liberation of the Bolivian people, who have been defrauded," but his coalition never got off the ground...
...spots lasted less than 20 minutes that evening last October, giving Greenacre and Barr no time to rig apparatus and make photographs. Dr. John S. Hall, the observatory's director, reported what they had seen to astronomical authorities. He had not seen the spots himself, but he ordered a close watch kept on Aristarchus. The moon waned, throwing the crater into cold and darkness, but in late November, two days after the edge of sunlight reached Aristarchus again, Dr. Hall and four other observers saw a reddish area, twelve miles long and 1½ miles wide, inside...
...exploratory shafts, using a smaller drill. Suddenly the skeptical rescue team was electrified by a series of raps on the drill bit. Over a quickly lowered phone line, word came that eleven men were alive in an abandoned gallery, 196 ft. below. Memorial services were canceled and the oil rig hurriedly recalled...
Pointer puppies cost anywhere from $100 to $500. But there is always a chance that the dog may turn out to be a champion and pay his own way, like Rig-A-Jig, a five-year-old owned by A. L. ("Pon") Lippitt of Virginia Beach, Va. This month, in the National Open Pheasant Competition at Baldwinsville, N.Y., Rig-A-Jig pointed six birds in less than two hours-enough to win him $1,600 and the tenth field-trial victory of his career. With nearly 750 professional field trials in the U.S. each year, many a breeder grows wealthy...