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...pipeline that will carry natural gas 800 miles north from Iran's southern oilfields to the Russian border. At Bandar Shahpur, still others staked out the site for a $100 million petrochemical plant, owned jointly by Iran and the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. Around the clock, workmen were building two new ports on the Persian Gulf ($300 million), a state-owned refinery outside Teheran ($133 million) and, nearby, the giant Latyan Dam ($100 million), which they hope to complete early...
...frustrated when a monitoring-cable plug was accidentally jarred loose from the Titan II's tail, causing an automatic shutdown of its engines only two seconds before liftoff. Later investigation disclosed that the engines would have shut down anyway-on either of the first two launching attempts. Workmen had forgotten to remove a thimble-sized plastic dust cap used during the shipment of an engine part. That cap would have prevented lift-off by blocking the rapid buildup of thrust...
...numbers of tall apartment buildings to be built swiftly. But single homes have resisted the industrial techniques that are commonplace in the U.S. Contractors get in one another's way, run out of materials, even quit to work on a second project before they finish the first one. Workmen, though skilled, handcraft things the way their grandfathers did. The result: low output at high cost. Levitt, who will use 99% French-made materials and equipment, is gambling that he can teach his French contractors and workmen to build Levitt-style, feels that eventually housing can be built in France...
...blurred grumble, Sculptor Alexander Colder, 67, fussed around supervising the workmen who bolted together his great crablike stabile Le Guichet (The Ticket Window) in the plaza of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. "I don't see the beauty of it," sniffed one worker. Neither had City Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, who tried to veto the Calder stabile last spring because "art is supposed to transmit thought. Unless it does, I don't get it." But the art certainly transmits Calder, and he ventured the thought that his vertically planed piece was a lot more "pigeon-proof" than...
...relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave-save only military-age youths and possibly some technicians Castro wants to hang on to. By week's end the U.S. had asked Pan American to act as carrier, and Castro workmen were enlarging and improving the Varadero airport. Camarioca, said Castro, was being closed to all exile boats from Florida. Those boats already in port -and there were more than 100 of them-were to load up and shove off immediately...