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...sixth-inning threat brought nothing but more frustration for the Crimson. Leading off the inning. Betty Ippolito received a free pass to first. Catcher Gill Raney followed with a single, and then Alissa Friedman walked to load the bases with nobody...
...byproduct of the normal production process. Then the hot oiler, usually someone hired to drain the saltwater tank, pumps out the crude and carries it away. He trucks it to an oil reclaimer, whose business is buying and processing sludgy, low-grade oil. The hot oiler sells his load to the reclaimer for about $15 per bbl., well below the legitimate market price...
...entire heist may take less than an hour. Each load earns the hot oiler at least $900, minus whatever kickback the pumper demands. One energetic trucker has boasted of pocketing $50,000 in just six months of steady stealing...
...state legislature in Oklahoma is now considering measures to curb the thefts, including a law allowing police to halt oil tanker trucks on the highways and demand to see papers that prove the origin of the load. Meanwhile, several oil firms have engaged an outfit called Oilfield Security Patrol Inc. to keep heavy guard over their well sites. Company President Jack Gibson, an ex-policeman, is afraid that curbing the thievery could get rough. Says he: "When a guy is sitting there with $8,000 worth of hot oil in his truck, he is not going to let someone talk...
Harvard's solid fielding (one error on the afternoon: Princeton committed six) helped Brown out of a couple of jams. The Crimson could have fallen behind early when third baseman Paul Chicarello muffed a hot grounder with two runners on in the first to load the bases, but a nifty Bauer-to-Gaylord Lyman-to-Vinnie Martelli twin killing doused the rally...