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...synfuels program, advocates argue that its purpose is still valid. Because world energy supplies are so volatile, they say, the price of oil could surge once again in the future. Says Thomas Haan, a Great Plains spokesman: "Just because it quit raining doesn't mean you stop fixing the roof. Just because energy is cheap right now doesn't mean we should stop trying to develop synthetic fuel...
...entirety." By that criterion, Mydans, 78, made a great photograph in one of his first assignments for LIFE. In the oil town of Freer, Texas, he turned his camera on the restless men loitering before a wood-frame lunchroom. Shooting from across the muddy street and above the roof line, his view takes in everything from a distant filigree of oil rigs to the ratty classicism of the restaurant porch. Harnessing the camera's broad indecisiveness, he reports both the sociology of a boomtown and the sparkle of sunlight in a puddled alley...
Buyers of land hire their own designers, who must adhere to the town code concerning height, the pitch of the roof, the size and configuration of porches. Yet the rules change sensibly from neighborhood to neighborhood. On north-south avenues, for instance, large front yards are required, thus leaving ocean views unobstructed even from points well inland; the same homeowners, however, must erect streetside picket fences to provide pedestrians a reassuring sense of scale and enclosure. Along Seaside's widest boulevard, the guidelines will produce grand houses with verandas...
Some gags work: a peasant crosses the stage with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python...
...made our way out to right field, and up to the section they've erected out there atop the grandstand roof. There are tables, standing room, a big bar, a food court with everything from really good sausage sandwiches to really wonderful New England clam chowder. It's a small, elbow-to-elbow party out there, and on a cool day when the sun would bear down on right-center the whole game, it was the perfect place...