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...began to pack for school. I felt little regret over leaving my job behind. I daydreamed about tearful farewells between the tweed blazers and silky slit-skirts at the bank and wistfully vowed that next summer would be different. Maybe if I wear my blazer and smoke a pipe. . . .CrimsonWilliam F. Hammond...
...kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back. It's the marginal athletes who do it, hoping that something magical will happen. But having a kid repeat a year just feeds the pipe dream...
...when the smoke cleared, Eriksen had torn the offending page from every copy of his findings and promised never to report on m--a again. So this year, wine grapes will be called the county's biggest agricultural moneymaker. But that is a politician's pipe dream...
...Soviet plan calls for the construction of either two small pipelines or one single line of high-tensile steel pipe perhaps 5 ft. in diameter. Some 40 large compressors will be required to pump the gas from the wellheads to a terminal in Waidhaus, West Germany. Says Heinz Durr, chairman of AEG-Telefunken, the big West German firm that may supply the compressors: "Even the American experience with the Alaskan pipeline, which is only one-quarter as long, is nothing compared with what we face here...
...project on their own, the Soviets have been seeking out Western contractors and suppliers, who are only too eager to help. The steel mills of Western Europe are now operating under capacity, and large manufacturers like Mannesmannröhren-Werke see big profits from the sale of expensive gas pipe. Two American firms are also looking for a share of the construction contract: Caterpillar Tractor hopes to get as much as $1 billion worth of business for road-building and pipelaying equipment, and International Harvester sees potential sales for compressor-station components...