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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes...
...well costs as much as $3,000,000, about six times the cost of a similar dry-land operation. The lease on a giant three-legged drilling platform, such as Kerr-McGee's Kermac 54, now jack-legged this week into 180 ft. of water 80 miles from shore, runs to $8,000 a day. Oil companies so far have invested $4.25 billion in offshore operations, recovered $1.75 billion of it. Under such conditions, all but a handful of independents have been frozen out of the play...
...Okinawa beach, D-day-plus-ten, the enemy launched a surprise attack, and I made a quick run with others to a nearby cave on the shore. In my haste I cut my hand on a sharp piece of coral rock. It was a Negro soldier who took a bandage from his own first-aid kit to bind my hand and stem the blood...
...Galilee, photographers waded knee-deep into the water to snap the Pope head on. As Paul climbed back up the old stone steps leading from the shore, his path was blocked by a genuflecting Italian lensman. "Papa, benedizione [Your benediction, Pope]," implored the photographer. Paul complied -giving the waylayer just the picture he had been after...
Adams estimates that a needle reactor will need about three months to drop 20 miles. He thinks the best place for a trial run would be one of the rock salt domes that poke to the surface along the Gulf of Mexico shore; the needle reactor should bubble through them as carelessly as a skindiver. Later models can tackle the sterner granite and basalt that form most of the rest of the earth's crust...