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...last year, hospitals reported 3,669 cases related to Ts and Blues, compared with 12,785 for heroin. But in some cities-particularly New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Albany and St. Louis - the new "rig" is more prevalent than heroin. Says Lieut. Lawrence Forberg of the Chicago narcotics squad: "I predict it will possibly equal heroin usage." Since first appearing in Chicago during the mid-'70s, Ts and Blues have spread with frightening speed. John Mudri, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Detroit, began noticing the combination a little over a year ago in early 1980. Says...
...rig world of heavy construction, no one thinks bigger than a country boy from Alabama named Winton ("Red") Blount. Just after World War II, he was building fishponds in the rural South. Now he is preparing to erect an immense desert campus in Saudi Arabia that will sprawl across an area the size of 109 football fields. In partnership with the French firm Bouygues, Blount Inc., of Montgomery, Ala. (fiscal 1981 sales: $651 million), has captured a coveted $1.7 bil lion contract to build Saudi Arabia's new University of Riyadh. Last week the first payment on the deal...
...prime beneficiaries of the energy boom are the area's farmers. Neil Doornbos, 85, and his wife Alice, 81, retired from farming in 1954. Their land, though, is only a mile north of the site of last September's gas discovery, so a 17-story rig is now pushing a drilling bit deep into a cornfield 150 yds. beyond their back door. If the drillers strike it rich, so will Neil and Alice; the couple will get a one-sixteenth share of the production. -By Christopher Byron...
...tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full of holes. Says Jon Carroll, a senior editor at New West magazine: "There are many blood alleys in California, but this one leads the parade. An absolutely terrifying driving experience...
Knowles proceeds to rig this promising situation unmercifully. His plan calls for the Devon boys to find a scapegoat on whom they can vent their frustration. They are goaded by the editor of the school paper, whose murky motive seems to be a belief that the U.S. needs a good purging. Someone breaks a new window in the chapel; four athletes corner a suspect and, while trying to force a confession out of him, bring on his death. A teacher then meditates on "that monster war-sending last thin death waves still reverberating around the world, even here to this...