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...bring it in, Conoco, the seventh biggest integrated oil company in the U.S. in gross operating income, used a drilling platform that stands 50 feet above the water. It has a main deck measuring 220 ft. by 106 ft., supported by 24 steel pilings, each 300 feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful...
...since 1942, when it dropped its sprawling, double-deck cover title, had the Saturday Evening Post (circ. 4,600,000) made major changes in its makeup. But last week readers of the Satevepost saw a big difference. There were more pictures-some spread across two pages or running necklace-fashion around text. There were wider margins, gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great...
Chrysler Corp. announced that it will build near Macedonia, Ohio an $85 million body-stamping plant, with enough capacity to supply all passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
Married. Eddie Fisher, 27, wavy-haired TV and jukebox (I Believe) star; and Debbie Reynolds (real name: Mary Frances Reynolds), 23, kittenish cinemactress (Hit the Deck); in a surprise finish to a loudly publicized, twelvemonth, on-again-off-again romance; in Grossinger, N.Y. Then they dashed off to spend part of their honeymoon at a Coca-Cola (his TV sponsor) bottlers' convention...
Since the great Crimson strength of last year lay with the sophomores, Coach Bill McCurdy lost only one regular pointgetter, when Paul Deck graduated. The freshman squad moved into varsity ranks, adding three good runners, Dave Norris, Ralph Perry, and Arthur Reider to the depth that has characterized Crimson teams over the past few years...