Word: shells
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...unpolished and sometimes profane wildcatter who looks like the suave character actor Vincent Price. Reagan last August appointed the feisty critic of government regulation as chairman of his Energy Policy Task Force. Since then, Halbouty has been able to recruit an impressive roster of corporate chieftains from Shell Oil, Standard Oil of California and Du Pont to serve with...
Experienced people are in such heavy demand that the large oil companies have serious difficulty keeping prized employees. Shell Oil is rumored to have lost some 100 geologists and geophysicists since the beginning of the year. McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. of New Orleans, for instance, has lured five scientists away from bigger firms since 1977 by offering them stock options of up to 30,000 shares each. The company's strong Wall Street performance has now made all five of them millionaires...
Some energy prospectors set up their own companies and then staff them with geologists and engineers hired away from the majors. M. Raymond Thomasson, 50, once chief geologist at Shell Oil, easily raised the money to start his own exploration firm, Spectrum Oil and Gas. William M. Chappelle, 45, left his job as an assistant manager for offshore drilling at Exxon to set up Chappelle Exploration Co. in Houston. Says he: "At Exxon you find oil for Exxon. On your own, you find it at least partially for yourself...
...though, that made the Skunk Works an air-age legend. When the first U-2s were being built, Chief Designer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson and his team worked overtime and got whatever they wanted. After he told his old pal Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle, then at the Shell Oil Co., that he needed a fuel that would not boil off at the low pressures of the upper atmosphere, Shell scientists produced a special low-boil, kerosene-type fuel just for Johnson's plane. Inevitably, it became known as Kelly's Lighter Fluid...
...great deal of discontent at Wellesley stems from the total lack of men--a problem compounded by the fact that Wellesley is very secluded and separate from all other colleges. "I felt like I had entered a nunnery or a nerd-shell when I came here," says sophomore Heather Rae. "There are a lot of girls here who just don't want to deal with men--who just want to shut the door on the male aspect of their lives...