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...President's reach, flying in 1943 to Casablanca in a Boeing Clipper to meet Churchill and De Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...
...world's most boring reading. Consider this example, on the wood used in ladders in factories and shops: "Knots of less than l˝ inch thick in diameter are permitted on the wide face of portable wooden ladders provided they are at least ˝ inch back from either edge; the slope of the grain in side rails shall not be steeper than 1 in 12 inches..." Not exactly a stairway to paradise. With appropriate illustrations, an OSHA manual instructs farmers how to avoid slipping on cow dung...
...hottest current issue is how to handle Alaska's North Slope oil. Washington's four major refineries are located on the eastern shore of Puget Sound at Cherry Point, 100 miles north of Seattle and 75 miles inland from the sea. The refineries are now supplied by tankers limited in size by state law to 125,000 tons. The oil companies and Ray want the figure raised to 250,000 tons, arguing that the bigger loads would allow savings leading to lower prices for consumers. Surplus oil would be passed on to the Midwest by pipeline...
...murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating many of the houses, including one that was bought by Lawyer Hugh Carey...
...exploration activities. The oil industry contends it already spends 30% to 35% of its after-tax profits on exploration. But because all the easy-to-reach oilfields have been discovered, the drillers must now sink deeper and more expensive wells in more inhospitable regions, like Alaska's North Slope or the U.S. outer continental shelf. Since 1973 oil companies have increased the number of wells drilled by a dramatic 63.4% in the U.S. alone, but even at that, new finds have been disappointing, and proven reserves continue to decline...