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Died. Erie Palmer Halliburton, 65, cranky, crusty farm-boy-to-riches oil tycoon, inventor of new methods of oil-well cementing (his "jet mixer" paved the way for mass production of well casings); after a three-year lung illness; in Los Angeles. Once so broke his wife had to pawn her wedding ring, Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer...
Djilas, once a Vice President of Yugoslavia and second only to Marshal Tito in the country's Communist hierarchy, was already serving a three-year sentence imposed last year after he was convicted of "conspiring against the government." In the courtroom Djilas looked thin, but seemed in good spirits and health despite almost a year in jail. The government prosecutor began his case by reading excerpts from Djilas' book. Sample: "the totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class [i.e., the ruling Communist oligarchy] which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke from under which...
...will be blacked out of the good shows on the other systems. The sweaty competition will also spur attempts by the established free TV networks to muscle out the pay-TV upstarts. Yet some of its most ardent opponents were pleased that pay TV will be put to a three-year test. Said American Broadcasting Co.'s Vice President Sterling C. ("Red"') Quinlan: "I hope pay-TV falls right on its rump. I really do not know if it's any good, but it has got to be tried...
...three-year postponement, originally applied only to medical students and those in special scientific fields, will now be extended to post-graduate students working full-time in any recognized field at a degree-granting institution. It was pointed out that this new regulation will pertain only to Army R.O.T.C. and will have no effect upon the Air Force and Navy groups...
...transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush, preferring (he thought) life among savages to being the prisoner of a civilized state...