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What gives Drinkhall-and Overdrive-their franchise to hunt is the populist philosophy of the magazine's editor-publisher and sole owner, Michael Parkhurst. New Jersey-born Parkhurst, 41, became an owner-operator trucker at 17 but sold his rig after ten years and used the money to start Overdrive in Los Angeles, a major trucking center. He wanted "to wake the truckers up to the fact that they're slaves to a monopoly." Parkhurst would visit truck stops by horse for publicity, but service, not stunts, made Overdrive. It dug, exposed, and above all helped out. There...
Sizing up the ungainly red rig in a Prague parking lot, one puzzled passerby conjectured that it was a dormitory-on-wheels for an ascetic order of monks...
Life aboard the rig suggests Devil's Island more than a dream vacation. Rotels have no toilet facilities; when there is no campground, oasis or hotel on their route, passengers go without bathing. Each morning after breakfasting and making their beds, they resume their seats in the bus for another ten hours on the road. Only two meals a day are included: tea or coffee, bread, butter and jam for breakfast and "quality German cooking"-all canned-for supper. Passengers must use the same sheets for the duration of the trip and, on journeys through remote areas, be prepared...
...fines. Among other Rattiner whoppers: a 1972 disclosure that Billionaire Howard Hughes had moved into the top two floors of the area's tallest (seven stories) building, and an eye-opener last year about how Soviet oil drillers were operating off Hither Hills State Park with an oil rig disguised as a fishing trawler. Both the stories sent reporters from national news organizations scrambling to investigate. "I believe the line between reality and fiction is obvious," says Rattiner. "If I fail in making it so, it is my fault. But it certainly gets everyone talking about the paper...
...result, Reksten canceled the contract, and now must pay Norway's Aker shipyards damages of $67 million. The Norwegian government this month came to his rescue: it agreed to buy shares in several Reksten companies for $35 million. The government will become sole owner of an oil-rig contracting firm, but Reksten will keep control of the other companies. On top of that, the Reksten tanker Sir Winston Churchill, which has been idled in the Persian Gulf for months, has received charters for two trips to Singapore. (Other Reksten tankers are named after Roman emperors, busts of whom decorate...