Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heinous offense a gentleman may commit is to divulge the name and whereabouts of that movable mecca, the small, inexpensive, discrete, family owned restaurant with a menu of rare enticements and threefork ambience. The temptation to tell can be strong. John McPhee, 48, author of the bestselling portrait of Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite restaurant, its pseudonymous owner-chef "Otto...
...same time, the U.S. has not fully exploited its domestic oil. Alaska's daily output could be increased from 1.2 million bbls. to 2 million, but there is not enough demand for the extra oil on .the West Coast and it cannot be transported east easily or economically. The Jones Act requires that the oil be shipped on U.S. vessels and that jacks up the price to unacceptable levels. A pipeline to carry the oil across the country has been stymied for six years. Initially the problem was just to get the necessary 700 federal state and local permits...
McPhee's latest book, "Coming into the Country," deals with the frontier in Alaska...
...chairman of Atlantic, Anderson engineered the 1966 merger of Atlantic and Richfield. Four years later he had developed ARCO into the eighth largest oil concern and ARCO owned one of the largest claims to the Alaska North Slope Field...
...should begin to plan for increasing production elsewhere," Schlesinger added, mentioning California and the North Slope of Alaska specifically as sites worthy of further exploration and development...