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...great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers in its fashion a symbol not only...
...testimony that they had heard a series of rapid shots, clearly not the product of an old shotgun. Police, it turned out, had been aware of some of these witnesses' accounts, but had either ignored them or lost the records. Nor had they revealed the discovery of three shell casings at the scene that could not possibly have come from Banks' weapon. The shells produced at trial, theorize defense attorneys, came from test firings by the then chief of detectives, who had custody of Banks' gun and was a major state witness. The detective, Phillip ("Shug") Howard...
Experienced people are in such heavy demand that the large oil companies have serious difficulty keeping prized employees. Shell Oil is rumored to have lost some 100 geologists and geophysicists since the beginning of the year. McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. of New Orleans, for instance, has lured five scientists away from bigger firms since 1977 by offering them stock options of up to 30,000 shares each. The company's strong Wall Street performance has now made all five of them millionaires...
Some energy prospectors set up their own companies and then staff them with geologists and engineers hired away from the majors. M. Raymond Thomasson, 50, once chief geologist at Shell Oil, easily raised the money to start his own exploration firm, Spectrum Oil and Gas. William M. Chappelle, 45, left his job as an assistant manager for offshore drilling at Exxon to set up Chappelle Exploration Co. in Houston. Says he: "At Exxon you find oil for Exxon. On your own, you find it at least partially for yourself...
...though, that made the Skunk Works an air-age legend. When the first U-2s were being built, Chief Designer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson and his team worked overtime and got whatever they wanted. After he told his old pal Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle, then at the Shell Oil Co., that he needed a fuel that would not boil off at the low pressures of the upper atmosphere, Shell scientists produced a special low-boil, kerosene-type fuel just for Johnson's plane. Inevitably, it became known as Kelly's Lighter Fluid...