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...shipping some to Japan). Nonetheless, this week-nearly a decade after the project's conception and more than three years after construction started-the Alaska pipeline begins carrying its first oil through nearly 800 miles of forbidding wilderness, from Prudhoe Bay north of the Arctic Circle to the warm-water port of Valdez, which is 120 miles east of Anchorage...
Although post-Franco Spain is eager for closer relations with Western Europe, joining NATO is not an immediate prospect. Membership, in any case, will not affect a Washington-Madrid defense cooperation pact, which runs until 1981. Washington already has a warm relationship with Suarez. There was also admiration for Spain's progress in Britain last week. "The secret of Juan Carlos' success," reflected one Spain watcher, "was his rejection of the old men of the civil war and the middle-aged leaders of the Opus Dei [the secretive Catholic lay organization] in favor of his own generation of Spaniards...
...steps south and one encounters Nell Yates, a secretary in those premises since the days of Dwight Eisenhower. Warm, efficient, knowing, she belongs there. Jimmy Carter must be just ahead. But the Oval Office, a stride through the curved door, is more a museum than the center of a man's authority. One wonders if Carter is still intimidated by the legend of the office, or if he is determined not to live amid the symbols of Washington status...
During last January's Big Freeze, it seemed that the weather would never warm up fast enough to save the nation from a series of natural-gas emergencies. As fuel shortages forced the closing of many schools and factories, industry officials expressed fears that their underground reservoirs were being depleted so rapidly that they could not be built back to normal during the summer-dooming the U.S. to another shortage next winter...
Gasoline supplies once threatened to run low this summer because refiners had to devote more of their production than usual to heating oil during the icy winter. But now only a few spot shortages of unleaded fuel are possible. On June 3, at the start of the warm-weather driving season, national inventories of motor fuel totaled 257 million bbl., 38 million bbl. more than a year earlier, and driving has not been increasing much. During the first four months of 1977, drivers used only 1.9% more gasoline than they did during early...