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Scarcely two years ago, at the height of the excitement over the huge oil strike on Alaska's North Slope, as many as 2,000 men swarmed around two dozen drilling rigs, preparing to tap the largest known oil reservoir in North America. This week, as the sun drops out of the northern sky, not to rise again for almost two months, fewer than 200 men are left, and only two rigs are rumbling in the icy darkness...
...period. When other activities take up my time, the slope falls off. That helps me to refuse invitations...
...facilities; the uncontrolled runoff of sewage has covered 40% of the harbor bottom with sludge. Complicating matters is the fact that there may be as much undiscovered oil lying off Long Island, where 42 oil companies are now involved in exploration, as there is on Alaska's North Slope. If oil is found and exploited, warns the environmentalist Committee for Resource Management, "Long Island could have a solid string of ghost beaches...
Perhaps the most important discovery was made early in the week during the second excursion by Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. After driving past a group of craters called the South Cluster, they made their way up a 7° slope toward the mountainous Apennine Front, and approached an imposing 12,000-ft. peak called Hadley Delta. The astronauts stepped out of the rover and began to select rocks, describing each to the fascinated geologists back in the science support room in Houston. One rock looked like "green cheese"-until Scott raised his gold-tinted visor and saw that...
...Most experts now dismiss the idea that rilles were carved out by water, like the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, N. Mex., which they resemble; instead, the canyons may be the result of lava flows. To help settle the argument, the astronauts plan to drive part way down the slope, which begins at a relatively gentle incline of about 10°. As the going gets rougher for the rover, they may leave it behind and walk the rest of the way into the rille. Later, the astronauts will drive to North Complex, a collection of craters and hummocks that...