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...Spark-Plug Center. North Carolina's Research Triangle Park has not only survived but has become the largest such complex in the country. It is set in the geographic triangle formed by Duke University (seven miles away), the University of North Carolina (twelve miles) and North Carolina State (15 miles). Twenty-five Government, corporate and nonprofit research organizations are located in the park's 5,400 acres of rolling, pine-covered hills. Over 60 buildings, some of them dramatic, futuristic structures like the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters, are widely separated in the woods-with plenty of room to stretch...
Anticipated Proposals. By contrast with his Labor predecessors, Begin has managed to plug almost all leaks from Jerusalem about the proposals he is bringing to Washington. The Premier spent nearly three hours with his Cabinet before flying to Washington, explaining what he intended to tell Carter. He gained an endorsement and also insisted that the ministers keep quiet at home until the Premier had a chance to present his ideas at the White House...
...will be a slow, carefully monitored journey. First, 6 million cu. ft. of nitrogen will be blown through the pipeline to purge air from the system, reducing the threat of oil-vapor explosions. Next, a cylindrical plug, called a "pig," will be shoved into the line. Finally, after a signal from Valdez, workmen will open valves at Prudhoe, allowing long-capped crude to fill the line behind the pig. The moving oil will push the pig through the 48-in.-diameter steel pipe at 1 m.p.h. As it goes, the cylinder will shove out of the pipe any refuse that...
...down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew out the temporary plug. A few seconds later the well itself let go, sending a fountain of mud, oil and highly flammable natural gas 60 meters (197 ft.) into the air. The 112 workers on the platform were evacuated...
Airport 77 has almost nothing to do with airports and even less to do with the way anybody lives or thinks in 1977. The previous airport movies at least managed to plug in to common aviation anxieties (engine failure, mid-air collisions), but the latest flying misnomer fails even at that feeble level...