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Lean, stubborn Charles A. (for Austin) Steen was so full of troubles that it was only natural to think of him as Bad-Luck Charlie. A onetime oil geologist for Socony-Vacuum, he spent two years in the South American jungle where no white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College...
...turned it down, is angling for a deal for $10 million with another group. Says Charlie Steen: "I don't want to build a financial empire, or become any kind of a big entrepreneur -I'm not cut out for it. I'm just a geologist and prospector, and that's what I want to be-although now I can do my prospecting in a limousine...
When the White House nominated Utah Geologist Tom Lyon to be director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, trouble rumbled right behind the announcement. United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis opposed Lyon because he had no coal-mining experience, and 88% of U.S. miners are coal miners. But no one was prepared for the explosion that blew the nomination to bits last week...
Indiana's Geologist Jesse James Galloway, 70, expert on foraminifera (a group of microfossils) and the first man to give a course in micropaleontology. In his 24 years at Indiana, he taught hundreds of students how to tell a fossil's age, was always so fascinated by his own subject that he once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt...
What is the condition of Russia's oil industry? How much petroleum is being produced? This week Dr. Leonid P. Smirnov, former chief Arctic geologist for the Soviet Union, gives some of the answers in the Socony-Vacuum publication, The Flying Red Horse. As the top oil explorer in Russia from 1925 to 1942, Dr. Smirnov discovered the Arctic fields in the Taimyr-Lena area, and the rich Second Baku basin, which stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic. But in 1949, disillusioned with Communism because "I saw what it was in practice and didn't like...