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...years ago as a "severe, organized counterreaction" to academic pressure. At first the Buttfucks limited their activities to a sort of "nameless, roving aggression," along the lines of stealing parking meters, destroying bathrooms, that sort of thing. Two years ago they elected a parking meter named Pancho Valdez to a post in student government. (For months afterwards, "Free Pancho Valdez" graffiti could be seen all over the Yale campus.) But their major foray into public depravity on a grand scale, an event every Yale upperclassman remembers, was something called BUTTFUCK...
That was the high point of the Buttfucks' public depravity. Yale has freshmen now who have never heard of the group. Even Pancho Valdez is gone now, "sort of stolen back by the police this summer." Graduation looms for the Buttfucks, who say they have settled into "a quiet, domestic depravity." They are not particularly concerned about academic pressure, although Yo Mo Dobro Jo himself talks about a continuing sexual tension at Yale; "the sexual scene basically just isn't very cool," he says...
...heavy or expensive to be moved by truck. There is a slim chance that the fleet could still get through-about 20% according to weather experts. Barring that, the delay may well mean the first trickle of oil will not begin flowing south to the deep-water port of Valdez on schedule in the summer of 1977. The expected flow of just under 2 million bbl. daily could be delayed until well into...
...Lose. After years of delays, work is finally surging ahead this month on the 798-mile steel boa that will stretch from the wells at Prudhoe Bay to the deep-water port of Valdez (pronounced Val-deez), where block-long tankers will be loaded for the trip to West Coast refineries. Already, 12,000 men and women are on the job building, excavating and servicing, and by midsummer the number will swell to 20,000 as the pipeline contractors drive to make their target date of mid-1977. The spongy, oil-soaked strata nearly two miles beneath the tundra...
...outsiders jam into Alaska, the communities on the pipeline are simply being overwhelmed. In 17 months Valdez's population has trebled, to 3,600; it is expected to bulge to 10,000 by autumn. Prices in the Valdez Market, the one grocery, are one-third higher than those in Anchorage-if there is anything on the shelves to buy. Housing has become so tight in Valdez that the monthly rent for one two-bedroom apartment recently jumped from $286 to $1,600. The sewage system is overloaded, children are attending school in makeshift classrooms, and traffic snarls the muddy...