Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York and Texas oilman, Mosbacher started sailing at four, in a cat-rigged, flat-bottomed shell boat. "I used to think it was great fun to turn the boat over," he says, "until everybody stopped helping me right it again." At 17, Mosbacher won the junior championship of Long Island Sound, went on to sweep the International Class championships and just about everything else in sight. In 1958, the first time he ever handled a big, 12-meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials...
...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...broke through its previous 1962 bottom of 553.75, set during the black hours of early morning trading on May 29. All told, 410 stocks, running the gamut from glamour to blue chip, hit new 1962 lows last week. Among them were the shares of such preeminently solid companies as Shell Oil (29½), Ford (74¼), General Electric (55½), U.S. Steel (42½), General Foods (61), Du Pont (170⅝) and Dow Chemical (42⅛). A.T. & T., which last year joined the growth stock club with a high of 239⅞, ended last week at 100⅜. Quipped...
...Shell, the right-wing gubernatorial candidate who lost to Nixon...
...came when a Shell Oil drill crew found rotary mud gushing from one of its wells. Rotary mud is forced down new holes to cool drill tips, and the Shell crew concluded that another drill had pierced its well shaft. A search quickly turned up the pirate rig-3,000 ft. away over the piny hills. At Shell's complaint, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in the state, ordered a crew of engineers into the field...