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Within 20 minutes the road suddenly veers to the left, and the earth seems to fall away abruptly into a bottomless chasm. Black craggy walls slope sharply down into the bowels of this deep crater, where shiny steel skyscrapers beckon mystically in the clear sunny air. Spread out below and beyond, extending almost to the snow-capped Andean peaks in the distance, sparkles La Paz, a booming city seemingly dropped from space into a lunar landscape...
...much as it can. The company is rich in reserves of what oilmen call "politically insensitive crude"-oil least subject to nationalization. It is among the largest developers of the two richest fields discovered in the past decade: in the North Sea and on Alaska's North Slope. Both should reach peak output around 1980. Exxon also owns most of a field off Santa Barbara, Calif., which holds reserves estimated as high as 1 billion bbl. but cannot be fully exploited until environmentalist objections are overcome. More oil surely lurks beneath the Gulf of Mexico. When the Government two months...
...stepped-up search for oil-even though the world then had a crude glut. In the past decade, Exxon's worldwide reserves have increased more than 9 billion bbl., or 21%. Crews are now searching, with good prospects, on Canada's Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula not far from the Alaskan North Slope and off the coasts of Southeast Asia-among many other places...
...consider the plaza first: the former slope around Lamont represents a grade change of about nine feet. Hazardous in icy weather, the slope will now be replaced by two sets of stairs--one at the lower level entrance to Lamont, and one near the entrance to the Pusey Library (parallel to Widener's main entry). Unlike the grand stairway of Widener or the less monumental stairways of University Hall, the new stairs do not function as the specific entrance to a specific place, but rather as an integral element of the Yard's pedestrian paths...
...attended a party at Alpha Delta at which he told everyone how great he had been until producer Wanger ordered him to leave. When Fitzgerald and Schulberg left, they retired to a coffee shop and dictated a parody script which began, "We fade in on the thin clear cold slope of the ski slide, and fade through the thin clear cold mind of a Dartmouth undergraduate...