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...Houston's Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. He should know. To harvest deep deposits lying 125 ft. below the sea surface and another three miles under the sea bottom, a Panhandle subsidiary last month finished a 150-mile underwater section of 30-inch pipe that will eventually reach shore and extend a full length of 200 miles out to sea. Costing $67 million, the Panhandle job is the Gulf's biggest project to date...
...simple images that Camus rediscovers in the essays are the sun and sea of the North African shore, his remembrances of family, and his feeling for the physical life of the Mediterranean people. They illustrate the philosophical turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk...
...strewn canyons and scrambling down 165-ft. cliffs; for three days, they must live on their own, surviving on nothing but water. In addition, they paddle kayaks and canoes for 95 miles around a wind-chopped lake, struggling to keep afloat during cloudbursts and camping overnight on the rocky shore...
...resistance. George Wallace tuned up for his presidential campaign by swinging around the state, telling devotes about the perils of Freedom of Choice. Those black children are goin' into the schools, George said, and that means that the whites ones are goin' to leave. George said that he was shore nuff sorry, but it looked like the state of Alabama wouldn't be able to keep a public school system goin' no more, because there wouldn't be any support from the legislature and the entire white public would resist...
...horsehair sofas and bullying grownups, Uncumber escapes onto the surface of the earth itself. Like Alice, she is both alarmed and enraptured by what she finds. Her first stunted blade of grass delights her. She sits entranced for hours, watching oily, scum-covered waves lapping at a blackened shore. The whole world-a hideous desert of slag heaps, ashpits, garbage, swamping flies and choking, poisonous vapors-holds for her an absorbing and mysterious fascination. Even the contaminated sea is infinitely more exciting, and more satisfying, than the blue waters, golden sands and fake sea spray of her synthetic seaside...