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...feared: 25 of the bank of 30 telephones were unmanned. A cordial, soft-spoken man from a small town in Kentucky, Nicholson, 28, nonetheless knows how to use a stick when he has to. He jumped all over the local staff. His tongue was blunt, at times crude, and later he ruefully explained why he had acted that way. "It's damn frustrating out here," he said. "There's no spontaneity, no volunteer spirit. Even the party regulars are hard to turn...
Perhaps autopsy, the second scene's subject, sums up van Itallie's crude intent. The surgeon who coldly recites the method for penetrating a skull suggests the author's indirect way of probing minds. One tries to learn something about individuals after they have died, the other claims that Adam and Eve, Abel and Cain, prototypes who have never lived, can teach us something about ourselves...
West Coast Glut. Meanwhile, another problem looms: What to do with the oil when it finally begins to flow? Incredibly, that question has still not been resolved. About half the crude in Prudhoe Bay is owned by Standard Oil of Ohio, in partnership with British Petroleum. It is scheduled to be shipped by tanker from Valdez to California. But Cleveland-based Sohio has no marketing outlets on the West Coast; it wants to unload its oil at Long Beach, Calif., and move it to its territory in the Midwest through a 200-mile pipeline to be built across southern California...
Sohio's oil could be shipped to Japan and swapped for Middle East crude that would be diverted across the Atlantic to East Coast ports. Such a swap, in an industry that operates on a global scale, would not be unusual, and California's Quinn says it deserves "serious consideration." But the main reason for building the pipeline, after all, was to reduce initially the nation's reliance on foreign oil by about 7%, or 1.2 million bbl. per day, and for that reason Congress expressly prohibited the foreign sale of any Alaskan crude...
...differences, an alternative could be to build one or more new pipelines-through Canada, from Washington State to the Midwest or across Guatemala, where the oil could be shipped to Texas by tanker and piped north. But none of these options could be ready by the time Prudhoe Bay crude starts to flow. Although it would add to transportation costs, and presumably to consumer fuel bills as well, Sohio can temporarily ship part of the surplus-perhaps 200,000 bbl. daily-on U.S.-owned tankers, through the Panama Canal and on to the Midwest...