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Rookies of the N.I.B.L., the cocky Truckers showed no more respect for the champs than big-rig drivers barreling through Sunday traffic on their way to the loading platforms. Wyoming's little Joe Capua and North Carolina's Jerry Vayda gave it the old college try, kept the Truckers in contention all the way. Marquette's Terry Rand almost broke up the ball game in the final minutes with a curling hook shot from the keyhole. This was competition the like of which Phillips Olympic Veterans Chuck Darling, Bill Houghland, Jim Walsh and Burdy Haldorson had never...
Gulf Oil, which spent $2,000,000 drilling for oil in Italy and discovered one potentially large field in Abruzzi on the Adriatic, last week struck its rig, announced that it was "renouncing the oil search and oilfields exploitation on the Italian continent." With that, the last U.S. company in Italy stopped hunting oil on the mainland, leaving a clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some...
...Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith. Like Lloyds of London, M. & M. has grown big (2,720 employees, offices in 29 U.S. and foreign cities) by never turning down an acceptable risk, will as gladly work out insurance for a $20,000 cotton shipment as a $2,000,000 offshore oil-drilling rig, or a $20 million pipeline. While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their insurance as cheaply as possible. One result of such diversification is that while many casualty insurance firms hit rocky going...
Faster Sail. An experimental rectangular sail on a U-shaped rig (see cut) adds speed and helps prevent boats from tipping, says its inventor, General Electric Co. Engineer Burnice D. Bedford. The new shape spills wind underneath the sail rather than over it, causing a "lifting" effect. It measures 120 sq. ft. v. 72 sq. ft. for a triangular sail on the same boat; with its rig it weighs 78 lbs. v. a conventional sail's 25-30 lbs. Bedford hopes to reduce the weight, patent and market a still better sail within a year...
...movie location in Spain, Italy's voluptuous Cinemactress Sophia Loren, unkempt and grimy, looked more appealing as a child of the earth than in more familiar rig as a child of luxury. While the cameras whirred, Sophia, in the role of a hell-for-dirt girl guerrilla, had just helped a motley band of actors drag a 3-ton artillery piece through rain and a morass of real...