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...term is a tribute to Seattle's Yesler Way. Down this greased slope, in the old logging days, slithered the cut logs on their way to Puget Sound. The lumberjacks themselves, living and brawling in work shacks on either side of Yesler Way, called their community "Skid...
...holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope field, the largest known pool of oil in the U.S. (reserves estimated at well over 5 billion bbl.). After Nixon named him to the Cabinet, Hickel promised: "What Udall can do by executive order, I can undo...
...just such a joint venture that touched off the rush to the North Slope this year. Geologists have long been aware that Alaska holds one of the last great known deposits of the world's main energy source. The Navy has controlled a 37,000-sq.-mi. North Slope petroleum reserve since World War II, but found no need to develop what it considered only a strategic reserve. Farther south at Cook Inlet, working wells produce 195,000 bbl. daily and have made Alaska the U.S.'s eighth largest oil-producing state. Three years ago. with U.S. consumption...
Last week the temperature hovered around 60° at Great Gorge and the fall foliage still hung on the trees, but a hundred-odd young skiers turned up early to try the synthetic surface. They wedeled down the 1,200-ft. slope or slammed through the slalom course. A few even tried the 30-meter jump, which later this month will be used by Olympic hopefuls. Those that tumbled picked themselves up unhurt; Sno-Mat's pliable bristles had cushioned their falls. "Psychologically, Sno-Mat would be better if it were white," said Sven Evenesen, 17. "But I'm happy...
...solid refinery and marketing operation, Sinclair suffers from limited production capacity and must buy large amounts of crude oil at a premium from outside sources. Fast-growing Atlantic Richfield (1967 sales: $1.56 billion) has meanwhile been on a production binge, and its recent oil find on the North Slope of Alaska promises to be one of the largest in U.S. history. A merger that would enable Atlantic Richfield to move its oil through Sinclair refineries would obviously benefit both companies...