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Cape Cod is at the southern end of Route 3, a natural peninsula turned into a large island: the Cape Cod Canal separates the Cape from the rest of southeastern Massachusetts. Two bridges connect the rest of the world to us. Cape Cod is shaped like an arm flexing its bicep, and the bridges connect where the shoulder would be. There are 13 towns on the Cape. One highway, Route 6, runs the length from Bourne (the shoulder) to Provincetown (the fist); 6A runs parallel from the shoulder to the crook of the elbow. Route 28 runs south from...
...ISRAELI CABINET'S announcement last Sunday that the Begin government will continue to promote settlements in the occupied territories of the Sinai peninsula and the West Bank of the Jordan River is as disappointing to Israel's friends as it must be maddening to her foes. Coming at a time when the much-vaunted Sadat initiative appears to be losing momentum, the cabinet's action has vitiated any lingering hopes of a quick peace settlement while creating even greater obstacles to any future negotiations...
Mother Nature had declared war and in so doing she left the nearby town of Hull a scarred battlefield. Until February 20, 13 days after the Blizzard of '78 had ended, army units were still blockading the two roads leading into the South Shore peninsula on which the town lies. Craters several feet in diameter pock marked the streets where sweeping tides had torn up the asphalt pavement...
...vesque was born in New Carlisle (pop. 1,100) on Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula. The son of a local lawyer, he attended Laval University in Quebec City, where he earned a B.A. but spent much of his time playing poker (he is "reckless" at it, says a partner of later days). Lévesque was suspended from Laval's law school in his third year for smoking in a lecture hall...
...work; he rents himself out to no man or studio. "My theory was that I could foul my career up just as well as somebody else, so why not try it?" The Malpaso Co. is named after a creek that runs through the Eastwood property on the Monterey peninsula. The outfit operates with a minuscule staff from a bungalow in Burbank known locally as the Taco Bell because of its resemblance to the fast-food joints. "If I've got a six-pack under my arm, a few pieces of paper and a couple of pencils, I'm in business...