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Despite the fact that each squad will have only one practice session, close play throughout the season in the intramural hockey league indicates that this should be a good game. The two intramural league leaders, Dudley and Winthrop, have been split up to give each squad an equal chance...
...Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
Both ships were World War II T-2-type tankers, whose welded hulls tend to crack in two when subjected to low temperatures and hammering seas. Of 523 T-2s built between 1943 and 1945, eight had split before the Pendleton and Fort Mercer. Seamen could only guess how many more might break in years to come...
...worry too much about pleasing the Sheik or sharing the new-found wealth with the people. Iran changed all that. As soon as Mossadegh got into power, K.O.C. sought out the Sheik-who had been getting a measly royalty of 10^ a barrel-and offered him a 50-50 split of profits, before taxes. This year, facing the pleasant prospect of a return of more than $200 million, the Sheik also faces a problem: how to spend it on his tiny, backward kingdom without creating inflation...
...engine took hold instantly, and Vag's mind dwelt momentarily on the excellency of his driving machine. He slipped it into first gear and stepped on the gas. The engine raced, the rear wheels raced, but the car stood still. The low whine of wheels spinning on ice split...