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...hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver in a pitch-black hallway in a Memphis...
...hundred miles west, hotshot Sunday evening gamblers were eagerly rolling dice at Atlantic City's new casinos. Although none of them knew it, at that same moment Texaco oilmen at sea on a drilling rig, which was moored in 432 ft. of water near the edge of the U.S. continental shelf, were playing for much higher stakes. Aboard the Ocean Victory, they nervously awaited the results of a test detonation 14,000 ft. below the ocean floor that could tell the outcome of their $30 million search for oil and natural...
...incurable gamblers that they are, oilmen seldom quit. Shell is moving its rig southward and, along with a group of 18 partners, will sink a second well, to a planned 16,000 ft. Mobil, Exxon and Texaco are pressing ahead with test borings of their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good...
...controversy over the nomination of candidates for the board arose last November, when one Overseer alleged that the AHA had attempted to "rig" the elections by nominating an unusually large percentage of members of the financial community...
...drilling will give a hypodermic to some ailing economic areas. Pipe, drilling mud and other necessities are being shipped to Davisville, R.I., which will serve as a supply station. The oil companies plan to quarter their drilling crews in Atlantic City. There will be about 50 men to a rig, each earning $700 to $800 a week, and their spending power will create new jobs in hotels, restaurants and stores. "It will be a tremendous advantage for the Atlantic City area," says Louis Dalberth, head of the Southern New Jersey Development Council. "Super," echoes Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...