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Slow & Frustrating. The first drill rig had to be transported by barge from Peru, dismantled, then dragged across the machete-cleared jungle. It took three months to move the rig from river port to drill site-a mere 20-minute hop by air. Since that early experience, virtually everything has been airlifted. To date, helicopters have transported about 80,000 tons of cargo and 131,000 passengers to and from the Orito field. But even with air support, it takes four days and 300 helicopter trips to shift the specially designed drilling rig from one site to another, five miles...
...truck drivers managed to escape their sinking vehicles, unable to aid their driving partners asleep in the back. Bill Needham, 27, of Kernersville, N.C., was pushing a tractor-trailer rig to Milwaukee when he hit the water...
...swung it high over the construction site beside the San Antonio River. Ever so delicately, Crane Operator Gene Smith steadied the massive shell against the push of the wind; every gust was countered by radioed adjustments in the pitch of a helicopter tail rotor mounted on the lifting rig. With directional help from a magnetic compass, Smith gently stacked each concrete box atop an identical unit, to which it was sealed with more concrete. Seventy-two times last week, a guest room was thus lofted into place around the 21-story elevator core of San Antonio's fast-rising...
...result is a striking 14-page spread of pictures by Photographer Avedon in the current Vogue, which exposes Penelope's charms in-among other outfits-a partially unbuttoned pants suit, a hip-revealing dress by Rudi Gernreich and thigh-high fun furs. But no matter what the rig, Penelope animates them all with her special gamine charm and kooky doll features...
...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...