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...another proposal is in trouble. The Pittston Co., a big oil-distribution and coal-mining corporation (1972 sales: $625 million), wants to put up a 250,000-bbl.-per-day refinery in East port (pop. 2,000), where Maine meets Canada. Like Durham, Eastport has a glorious, wild shoreline with rocky peninsulas, twisting coves and hidden bays. It also has a deepwater harbor big enough to accommodate today's enormous supertankers. But, unlike Durham, it is a gray and decaying town. Eastport is too far from big cities to be a summer haven for tourists, and so its economy...
...Rotterdam, while The Netherlands' usual share of Arab petroleum has been sent elsewhere. The Arabs themselves have permitted the oil companies to off-load some Arab oil in Rotterdam-if its ultimate destination is Belgium or West Germany's Ruhr Valley, both connected to the Dutch port by pipeline. The result, says a Rotterdam municipal official, is that "the embargo could continue indefinitely and it would not make any difference...
...after two years of drifting round Europe's universities as an American student prince, Lincoln Steffens, 26, disembarked at the port of New York. He was greeted by an envelope from his father, a self-made Sacramento businessman and community pillar. It contained a terminal $100, a few Polonian sentences about theory at the expense of practice, and the advice: "Stay in New York and hustle...
Moreover, he did not overreact when Israeli troops violated the Oct. 22 cease-fire and surrounded the city of Port Suez. Sadat's restraint allowed Kissinger to make a convincing case to the Israelis that Egypt really wanted an agreement...
...despair of N.C. State's 1972-3 exile, when Norm Sloan's roundballers racked up a 27-0 campaign (but could not play in port-season tournaments because of recruiting violations), turned into exultation when a three-day weekend coup d'etat went without a hitch in Greensboro...