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Reagan left the ballroom stage and walked down a 100-yard carpeted corridor that leads to the VIP exit. When he stepped out onto the sidewalk, the drizzle had stopped. The President flashed one of his usual jovial smiles as he headed toward his car, parked 15 ft. from the exit and 10 ft. from the press rope. Agent Unrue was in the driver's seat; the engine was running. Reagan raised his right hand high, waving to people standing across the driveway...
...Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
...reason that oil-and gasmen are intrigued with the Eastern Overthrust Belt is its proximity to the energy-starved Northeast. Nearly 17% of the nation's population reside in the heavily industrialized corridor stretching from Washington to Boston, but until now the area has had little locally produced oil and gas and has been forced to bring in energy from hundreds or thousands of miles away...
Guarding the Lehnbachaus exhibit, a large, fat man sat in a hallway just inside the entrance. Down the corridor stood a table of tools and junk. The guard laughed as I walked by him, ignoring the table, and then he waddled over, grabbed my hand and cheerfully led me back to the heap in the corner. I had missed the first piece of the exhibit...
...world in which to play chamber music--"an acoustic marvel," says Greenhouse. "Sanders is a most beautiful sounding theater," continues Pressler. "There is only one problem: no backstage. You go from playing in that beautiful hall, and when you leave the stage you must stand in that cold, cold corridor...