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...tour, and none other than Killer and his man, Regalado. Elder had played his second shot from the fairway, and had wound up about 20 feet past the flag. Regalado, meanwhile, had hit his second from a portion of steeply banked rough near the first gallery slope, bouncing his ball over the green into the semi-rough of the apron. Strangely enough, the crowd seemed to be cheering for him as well as for Weiskopf and Elder. It must have been because of his second shot from the rough...
After years of debate and controversy, construction on the first stretch of the oil pipeline between Alaska's North Slope and the Lower 48 states is scheduled to begin later this spring. Now- a new battle is shaping up over the North Slope's other treasure: natural gas. Corporations, environmentalists and politicians in the U.S. and Canada have begun jostling for position on the question of how best to transport the gas to market -or whether to bother...
Toward the other end of the street the houses are not as nice. They don't have lithographs or plates with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King on them on their mantles. They're on a slope and the back ends have to be held up by rickety-looking stilts. Let one grey weathered house stand for the rest: Inside tall narrow stairs twist back up around a wide chimney. The room is hot and is smoky and full of that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves...
...city, which is 12,500 feet above sea level, is pleasant on a clear day; at night, however, the cold is brutal. The air is very thin, and breathing becomes difficult after any strenuous activity. As the bus descends along the zig-zag road that hugs the rocky slope, the hovels give way to slightly more sturdy but still miserable houses, crowded together on filthy unpaved alleys. Eucalyptus trees begin to appear. Then the bus descends further into the more solidly-built portion of the city, with quaint two- and three-story pensions and humble eating places crowding the paved...
...some point halfway up the slope of the La Paz canyon, rural and urban Bolivia meet. The Indian Quarter of the city is situated just where the western wall of the crater begins to rise sharply. The narrow sidestreets here are lined with the old, deteriorating shops and grocery stores owned by the mestizos (people of mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb...