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Nolan's cover is an overture for the book. Its color is old-moss green, the green of stale water. The page is divided by an unbroken sea-horizon. Running the edge of the even ocean is the boat of the poems -- "our soul...a three master seeking port." An old-fashioned wire grave fence spans the dark sky. Behind the fence hover five "characters" -- anonymous creatures. They are placed like a line-up of black sheep to carry us into the dream-vision of the book. We see them again and again -- hermetic figures, alone, hungry, against the austere...
...AFRAID of witnessing the death of an eleven-inch trout by port wine...
...heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital bridges connecting Amman and the port of Aqaba...
Deficit Expected. The U.S. needs an exceptionally high and rising rate of exports in order to balance its generous outflow of capital for imports, foreign aid, military aid, tourism and the like. Unless the nation achieves faster ex port growth/ it will not be able to bring its balance of payments into line, and the value of the dollar may be threatened. Though the U.S. payments ran slightly in surplus during the July-through-September quarter, much of this was due to such temporary factors as the turbulence in Czechoslovakia and France, which caused considerable European capital to flee into...
None of the oil is likely to reach U.S. markets until 1971. The companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs...