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Bringing the oil out, however, in the face of the North Sea's 100-m.p.h. winds and 90-ft. waves presents a formidable technological challenge. Brown & Root, a U.S. construction firm, is helping to build two semisubmersible drilling platforms for British Petroleum in Scotland. They will be 700 ft. tall, about the size of the largest office building in Europe. A Norwegian firm is building for Phillips Petroleum a 1,000,000-bbl. at-sea storage tank with a double shell; the exterior is perforated to absorb the impact of the giant waves. This technology is so expensive that...
...Scotland stands to benefit too. Aberdeen, once a somnolent fishing city, has become the undisputed center of the oil rush. Some 250 companies, many of them American-owned, are supplying everything from helicopters to hot meals for the drillers; unemployment in the city has dropped to 2.7%, half the Scottish average. But Aberdonians do not count the boom an unmixed blessing. Oilmen confide that the danger of a pipeline break under the North Sea is high. Many Scots worry that some day a tide of oil will roll in from the sea, burying their sandy beaches and destroying watering spots...
...Troon, Scotland...
...English send CARE packages to needy sheep dogs in Scotland, yet lead the world in the ritual demolition of foxes. For their sins and sensitivities, they deserve this odd, sporadically charming book, which blends dotty episodes-suitable for framing on The Avengers-with a moral message about the beastliness of man to beast and man alike...
Married four times, the duke made more headlines with his 1963 divorce from Wife No. 3, Margaret Whigham Sweeny Campbell, which became the most expensive divorce case ($140,000 in legal fees) in Scotland's history...