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...April 22, as company officials gathered round Phillips' Kaybob well, the drill stem broke through to a formation of oil-bearing limestone nearly 10,000 ft. down. The first tests showed a natural flow of more than 2,600 bbl. a day. Nearby, Home Oil's Swan Hills and Virginia Hills wells augered down into the same limestone formation, also found heavy concentrations...
Dubrovnik (July 1-Aug. 31) is the summer gathering place for Yugoslavia's best singers, dancers and composers. The festival's staple program performed by both visiting and local artists contains such works as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with a sprinkling of more modern works by composers such as Ernest Bloch and Manuel de Falla. A big annual drawing card: a great variety of fine wines from all parts of Yugoslavia...
...best seen by walking. If you start at Copley Square and walk north, you will come eventually to the docks, and can cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after...
...Black Swan. The principal source of these accusations was Montagna's discarded mistress, Milanese Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, known to Italy's avid scandal readers as "the black swan." In September 1954, largely on the strength of Anna Maria's circumstantial tale of sex orgies, dope trafficking and corruption in high places, Piero Piccioni was formally charged with "culpable homicide." Arrested along with him were Montagna and the ex-chief of the Rome police...
...grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...