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...tides of the upper air were calm as darkness fell. One balmy air mass pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico, flowed over New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. Cold air edged eastward from the Pacific. When the air masses came together, like rock strata along an earthquake fault, a storm was born...
Everybody Dance. The new krewes cut across a dozen social strata. There are Italian krewes, Irish krewes, German krewes. There are krewes for college men, businessmen, professional men. To the horror of New Orleans' old guard, there are even krewes for women. Each seemed determined that its ball should be as lavish as the next. Queens of new krewes were not always debutantes, but all-like pretty Shirley Ray Toups (see cut), who reigned over the Bards of Bohemia ball-were gorgeously gowned...
...high gravity of the oil (it is almost pure gasoline), and the depth of the oil-saturated strata (about 1,700 ft., the deepest of its kind ever found), caused experts to guess that the pool may contain a minimum of 50 million barrels, a maximum of 600 million barrels. In honor of Old Mike, the area was named Benedum Field...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...