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...will go after it gets there. The economic and political implications of the various plans being made to refine the oil, some of which cannot be handled by existing West Coast facilities, were reported by Washington Correspondent Don Sider. The description of the pipeline itself, with its adjoining highway for trucks and its walkways for caribou, came from our Alaska stringer, Jeanne Abbott, who has traveled its entire length. She says the pipeline has transformed her state, making "the old casual frontier style a quaint backdrop to a fast-paced urban way of life...
...slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left for small change. Acorss the highway from Haymarket is the Italian North End, complete with good restaurants, tight ethnic community, and Old North Church. But don't wait for some short, dark-haired lad to come running out of an alley shouting that it's "Prince Spaghetti Day." They only eat that shit in Quincy Center...
...Central Intelligence Agency. It was obliquely referred to as "the pickle factory" or "our friends" or "across the river" or, more openly, "the agency" or "the company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take some pictures of the people and operations inside...
...between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Arab villages of Beit Nuba, Emmous and Yalu, with all their 1,800 houses, were bulldozed to the ground. East of the present Jerusalem-Nablus road, meanwhile, the Israelis are linking their major settlements overlooking the Jordan Valley with a new two-lane highway called the Allon Road (named for Israel's present Foreign Minister). The road clearly defines the West Bank areas that Israel intends to keep...
...Frank Burford, who as recently as 1973 was making $19,000 a year. In 1976 his income was more than $4 million. He became a superstripper-of coal. A former Emory University law professor, Burford returned home to West Virginia in 1967 to liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, Burford struck...