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...Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole classic Nature Boy to the disco-danceable Valdez in the Country...
...pipeline has had a disintegrative effect on many families with members in some way involved with the project. Fathers with construction jobs are usually away nine months of each year. Faulkner said in the pipeline terminal city of Valdez, known to Alaskans as "Valdisease," about a third of the housewives prostitute themselves regularly, partly to keep up with the exorbitant prices that face them in the grocery market. Finally, many family structures are jarred by the abundance of high school age children making more money than their fathers...
...result, concedes Darch, "we are not going to meet our goal of putting oil into the line next May." But "with a little luck," he insists, the oil will start to flow by the end of June, enabling Alyeska to begin loading tankers at the ice-free port of Valdez almost on schedule...
...looms: What to do with the oil when it finally begins to flow? Incredibly, that question has still not been resolved. About half the crude in Prudhoe Bay is owned by Standard Oil of Ohio, in partnership with British Petroleum. It is scheduled to be shipped by tanker from Valdez to California. But Cleveland-based Sohio has no marketing outlets on the West Coast; it wants to unload its oil at Long Beach, Calif., and move it to its territory in the Midwest through a 200-mile pipeline to be built across southern California and existing natural gas lines running...
...prescience paid off when oil prices started to skyrocket at the end of 1973. Suddenly, energy projects that had previously seemed uneconomic looked profitable, and Fluor had skilled engineers ready to do the work. The jobs were immense: a $1.4 billion contract to build twelve pumping stations and the Valdez terminal for the trans-Alaska pipeline, for example, and a $1 billion plant for the South African Coal, Oil & Gas Corp. Ltd. to convert coal into oil and petroleum products-the world's largest such facility...