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...great 800-mile Alyeska oil pipeline at last in sight, the builders are preparing to sell off the vast store of equipment accumulated in 2½ years of construction. Among the items for sale: 18,000 bulldozers, cranes and other pieces of heavy equipment; nearly 2,000 pickup trucks; 125 portable bridges; and from the 29 construction camps strung out along the line, 5,395 modular camp buildings fitted out as dormitories, kitchens, game rooms and offices and fully equipped right down to the telephones and Coke machines. Alyeska's most prized offering: 1,500 elaborately insulated outhouses built...
...Retailers had hoped for a massive pickup in sales during the back-to-school period. They were disappointed when sales rose by 9% over the same period last year; most of the rise was attributable to inflation. Economist Grove, however, predicts "some pickup" in this area during the fourth quarter of 1976, adding, "I don't think it's going to be a boom by any means...
Thereupon, with a pickup crew that somewhat resembles a World War II movie platoon-a Chinese, a Japanese, a couple of woebegone Wasps, a Jew, a bitter widow, a good-looking woman doctor and a majestic black man-the professor sails west searching for the mysterious island that will convince his colleagues that he actually deserves a full professorship...
...other well-known pickup joint near the Square is, of course, the Casablanca, under the Brattle Theater. Upstairs at the Casa B. is always full of single women, while the downstairs is generally preppie. They make good mixed drinks, though. The Casab tends to card more than most Cambridge bars, so bring ID, real or otherwise...
...Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed up for an official appearance in Birmingham driving a pickup truck complete with CB radio and gun rack...