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Contested every four years, the Rimet Cup in prewar years used to travel between Latin America and Italy. In 1950 Brazil got into the finals but lost out to Uruguay. Brazil promptly went into a week of mourning. This year the Brazilians were out to cop the cup. The team they had to beat: the lithe and husky Hungarians, 1952 Olympic champions and the hottest team out of Budapest since the Gabor sisters...
...work in this mushy country, the oilmen turned amphibious, dug canals instead of building roads, and invented big-tired "marsh buggies" to travel on water or land or a soft mixture of both. Here the landlubber Texans met the seagoing, French-speaking Cajuns, who taught them the rudiments of seamanship. But the oilmen had yet to meet the full power...
...enough to support the drilling machinery. The rest of the outfit, including crew quarters and all supplies, is carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet of water, the depth record...
Faster & Quicker. Pacific Far East hoped it could keep sailing without a Government subsidy and thereby travel when and where it pleased. But taxes ate up so much of the profits that the line could not accumulate enough of a reserve to buy new equipment. Last year Pacific Far East went on the Government-subsidy list and its routes were restricted. But the subsidy made it possible to build the Golden Bear* and two more Mariners soon to come off the ways...
...planning to travel abroad this summer, you may be interested to know that your copy of TIME will cost seven escudos in Portugal, ten piastres in Egypt, 100 fils in Iraq. Business Manager David Ryus has been telling me some fascinating facts about how these currencies and others like kurus, dinars and pyas fit into the day-today operations of TIME'S International Editions. "We have a market for our magazine in 180 different countries," Ryus explained. "We sell TIME for kroner, drachmai, rials-about 120 currencies all told. Two of the newest mediums of exchange are the rupiah...