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...what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort to find and hoist up the remains of PT109, he set off to meet with...
Almost totally unnoticed amid the debate over Alaskan oil and the Administration's energy program has been some encouraging news. Spurred on by the prospect of higher prices, oilmen have sharply stepped up the pace of exploration in the Lower 48 states. New wells are being sunk at the highest rate in nearly two decades. More than 2,000 drilling rigs-meaning just about every one available-are now boring for gas and oil on shore, v. an average of only 975 six years...
Lance's shares, bought largely at a premium price, cost him more than $3.3 million in borrowed money. At one point last week their value had sunk to $1.7 million. One reason for the steep decline was that National Bank of Georgia officers decided earlier this month to write off $2.3 million in loan losses for the first half of 1977. Another was the prospect of Lance's promised divestiture. Since his shares amount to roughly 16% of the bank's stock, the anticipated sale has had an understandably dampening effect on the market value...
Maurice Lucas sunk a free throw at 0:27 to give Portland a 109-105 lead, but McGinnis responded with a 25-foot onehander at the 18-second mark...
...LONDON, Conn.--A powerful Yale women's varsity heavyweight eight sunk the Radcliffe crew's hopes for an upset yesterday on the Thames River in New London, Conn., scoring a solid seven-second victory over the varsity in a two-mile affair...