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Once all the data had been gathered, the big problem for Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his staff was to get it all on a two-page map and still make it clearly readable. The rather large aim was to differentiate among natural-gas, crude-oil and product pipelines, to show oilfield areas and natural-gas fields, and to rank refinery areas by size. Besides high cartographic skill, all this called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper...
Nearly 125 companies in the U.S. now transport energy by pipe. Last year they pumped 14.8 trillion cu. ft. of gas and 3.7 billion bbl. of crude oil or refined products. Snaking more pipe over rivers and bays, deserts and mountains, the industry this year will lay another 28,200 miles at a cost of $1.8 billion...
Cost & Controversy. The pipeline companies, which mostly have their headquarters in oil-rich Houston or Tulsa, are essentially transportation companies that shy from outright owner ship of production facilities. The 92 major oil pipeline companies that move 75% of all U.S. crude oil shipments and 45% of all finished products - ranging from jet fuels to tractor fuels - are owned either by individual oil companies or by consortiums. Service Pipe Line Co., "the largest (14,000 miles of pipe), is a Standard Oil of Indiana subsidiary, and runner-up Humble Pipe Line Co. (11,700 miles) does two-thirds...
Some of the best-intentioned and most experienced U.S. policymakers are convinced that the U.S. must above all counter Red China's war of ideas. These ideas really boil down to: get rid of the foreigners and let Communism give you a better life. Successful though this crude approach is in Asia, it has yet to work anywhere without the accompaniment of subversion, political infighting, blackmail and the threat of force. From the time that Chiang Kai-shek was fighting the Communists for his life down to the present crisis in Viet...
Marseille is the halfway house on the world's main route of illicit drug traffic. Crude morphine from the Middle East is smuggled into the tough, jaded Mediterranean port and converted to heroin. It is then sent to New York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years...