Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a giant offshore drilling rig buffeted by gale winds and 20-ft. waves, crews of the American Overseas Petroleum Ltd. last week began boring into the shallow center of the North Sea. Their quest-for natural gas to supply fuel-shy Europe-will be one of the world's most closely watched explorations. The wildcat operation off Dogger Bank, a favorite ground of herring fishermen, is the first to probe Britain's portion of the continental shelf. It is involved in a prospecting race that has roiled the waters of the North Sea and shows promise...
...Veran's wife opened up; the agents grabbed her before she could push an alarm button, let Lavalette and 14 more policemen in. Upstairs they surprised Monsieur Jean stuffing heroin into cellophane bags destined for the U.S., and also uncovered not the usual kitchen-sink and gas-stove rig for boiling down morphine but an ultra-modern four-room assembly line-"a veritable factory," cried Lavalette...
Even though he lacked any solid evidence to back up his charge, Goldwater claimed that the Kennedy Administration had deliberately delayed acting in the Cuban missile crisis so as to influence the 1962 congressional elections, implied that Lyndon Johnson might try to rig a pre-November international crisis for the same purpose. That came at just about the same time that the Johnson Administration let it be known that all Cabinet officers except the Secretaries of Defense, State and the Treasury would be taking to the stump this fall. It also happens that both Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara have...
Like any other Sunday ham, Nominee Goldwater sat before the radio rig in his Phoenix home, chatting amiably with people across the nation. Finally he signed off reluctantly, explaining that he had to "go back to the Land of Oz-Washington...
...first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...