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Roadblocks and machine gun emplacements sprang up once again on the city's streets. Militants, their AK-47s at the ready, closed the main highway routes to Tripoli in the north and Damascus to the east. Shops shuttered quickly, and frightened Beirutis scuttled through rapidly emptying streets in last-minute efforts to stock up their larders. At the very last moment, the American University of Beirut canceled its commencement exercises, leaving capped-and-gowned students walking on an otherwise deserted campus...
Bluegrass. The Independence Day weekend is fireworks on the highway, but this one might be quiet and mellow: three days of the Green Mountain Country Banjo Festival, July 4-6, 12 bucks for all three days including campsite, five bucks for each individual day, on Birdseye Mountain in Castleton, Vermont, on 800 acres, featuring Doc Watson, the world's premier flatpicker, with his son Merle, presumably doing "Tennessee Stud" like nobody can, and Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers. Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, plus a lot of fine New England bluegrass bands. Disregard...
...freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows of swiftly passing cars. The largest-not yet built-is a 1½ acre project for Bedminster, N.J.: a low, subtly broken plane cutting across the center of a circular amphitheater...
...states, new highway signs carry distances in both kilometers and miles. On I-94 in Minnesota, for example, a road sign outside Fergus Falls reads, ST. CLOUD 100 MILES OR 161 KILOMETERS. Other signs note that 55 m.p.h. equals 88 kilometers per hour...
...welders from Chicago and Bartlesville, Okla., geologists from "back East," college students out for adventure, and a smattering of whores, highrollers and assorted hangers-on from all over. They come by jets screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich. Their aim is to work...